Advanced Fielding Stats Interesting article that criticizes fielding sabermetrics and thus suggests that WAR is a garbage stat as a result. I'm not a baseball handicapper but I know people who utilized advanced fielding stats in their handicapping, which may not be useful.
[url]https://www.realclearsports.com/articles/2013/09/30/going_to_war_with_baseball_statistics_97870.html[/url]
Sabermetricians continually try to improve their data. More cameras and other equipment are being placed in ballparks. Perhaps more information about the velocity and arc of batted balls will improve defensive metrics. But the father of sabermetrics, Bill James, remains skeptical: “We’ve had these cameras pointed at pitchers for years and haven’t learned a damn thing that is useful. … I suspect the same thing would be true with respect to fielding.”
