Metric Explainers

Metric Explainers

Shape Analysis: Automatically Detecting Formations

Shape Analysis uses tracking data to automatically identify a team’s shape, both in and out of possession, during a game.

3 years ago Jonny Whitmore, Thomas Seidl

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Raw Value: A Comprehensive Pitch-by-Pitch Player Evaluation

By now, every analytical baseball mind knows there are countless statistics like batting average, slugging percentage and RBIs that evaluate performance based on the cumulative result of a player’s at-bats.…

3 years ago The Analyst

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Identifying Patterns with Movement Chains

Movement chains describe the patterns of four player involvements in a passage of play by displaying the locations of the first touches.

3 years ago Jonny Whitmore, Danny Dinsdale

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Whiff+: A Look at Which Pitchers Dominate by Generating Swings and Misses

Whiff rate doesn't paint an accurate picture when it comes to measuring a pitcher's stuff. Whiff+ accounts for what whiff rate does not.

3 years ago The Analyst

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What Is Possession Value (PV)?

Possessive Value assigns credit to individual players based on their positive and negative contributions on the ball. But how does it work?

3 years ago Jonny Whitmore

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BIP+: Which Batters Do the Most Damage After Making Contact?

In this installment of a series on advanced baseball metrics, we look at what BIP+ reveals about Miguel Sano’s raw power and how Javier Baez could get back on track. For…

3 years ago Taylor Bechtold

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Sequences and Possessions in Football

Stats Perform’s possessions framework strings together consecutive events into sequences in order to provide a more detailed picture of what’s happening on the pitch.

3 years ago Jonny Whitmore

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Discipline+: Why Not Every Decision to Swing is Created Equal

We’re taking a close look at discipline+ to discover what it tells us about the versatility of Mike Trout, Juan Soto and Ronald Acuna Jr. For a look at which players…

3 years ago The Analyst

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What Are Expected Assists (xA)?

Expected assists (xA) measure the likelihood that a given pass will become a goal assist based on several factors about the pass.

3 years ago Jonny Whitmore

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Contact+: Which Hitters Are Baseball’s Best at Making Frequent Contact?

In this installment of a series on advanced baseball metrics, we look at what contact+ reveals about the greatness of DJ LeMahieu.

3 years ago The Analyst