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Originally Posted by stealofhome
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). |
Nicely done. I was thinking you were asking something else.
In my previous posts, I was trying to find out the impact of the hold rating of a pitcher on stolen bases. The original OP, I think, was trying to find a correlation between the OOTP ratings (stolen base, speed, baserunning) and stolen base success. So what I was wondering was the best way to compare stolen base success back to the ratings of the player. With the hold number of pitchers, it was a singular rating to compare to. With runners, it could be one, two, or three ratings it would need to be compared to. That's why I didn't do an analysis similar to the hold rating analysis. Not sure if I should compare it to stolen base rating only, or a combo of stolen base and speed, etc. I would think, but I'm not sure, that one of those number is primarily used to determine frequency while the other may dictate success. If we knew how it was used, a comparison to results could be made.