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Originally Posted by <Pion>
Wasn't sure how to rate them, whether it should be by stolen base rating, speed, baserunning ratings, a combo of one, two or three? But yeah, could do the same if we chose a methodology. Wasn't as straightforward as comparing the Hold rating, so I haven't done it yet.
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I created a rating - rSB - by weighting SB as +0.2 runs and CS as -0.4 runs, which is about what is used for calculating wOBA. Then turned that into a rate stat (rSB/PA). You could estimate SB opportunities which I remember seeing a method for online but can't place right now. Then run a multiple regression using Speed, Stealing, and Baserunning to see how each variable impacts the likelihood of a positive number of stolen base runs per PA. But again, I did not see any correlation.
Edit: Found the page I was looking for:
http://walksaber.blogspot.com/2005/1...peed-unit.html
So you could create Stolen Base Attempts = (SB+CS)/(1B+BB+HBP) and use rSB/SBA, or even go as far as creating a full Speed Score for each player (which I might do).