James, Piette; Jensen Shane T. - In: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 8 (2012) 3, pp. 1-36
Quantitative evaluation of fielding ability in baseball has been an ongoing challenge for statisticians. Detailed recording of ball-in-play data in recent years has spurred the development of sophisticated fielding models. Foremost among these approaches, Jensen et al. (2009) used a hierarchical...