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by AB-Joel on May 2nd, 2004

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What qualifies as an error?

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  • by Yoyo Head on June 1st, 2004

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    A scorekeeper gives a player an error if he believes an average fielder making normal effort should have made the play successfully. As you can imagine, this leaves a lot of room for interpretation by scorekeepers! It can be pretty subjective and a scorekeeper's calls do sometimes get changed after the game.

    Here's one problem: If an above-average fielder makes an extraordinary effort to get a ball into his glove, where an average fielder would not even have reached it, then makes a bad throw because he is off balance, he gets an error. But the hypothetical average fielder making his normal effort would not even have had the ball in his glove in the first place, so he couldn't have made an error. The scorekeeper has no means to track this.

    Here's another problem: A scorekeeper has no means of awarding any official recognition to a fielder who makes extraordinary effort and makes a play that the average fielder would not have made. It's common for scoresheets to have blue stars or some such, recognizing a great play, but there is nothing official.

    I believe there should be a new statistic, which I suppose could be called a robbery. A robbery would be defined as the opposite of an error. If an error is a play that is NOT made, but would have been an out if it had been made, then a robbery would be a play that IS made, but would have been a hit (not an error) if it had not been made.

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