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Originally Posted by quillenl
I agree but didn't see that data readily. Did you find the double play opportunities on Baseball-Reference or some other site? Kind of amazing to see Sogard have half the rate of double play opportunities as the league leaders.
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He hasn't explained it. I asked awhile ago so I could try to apply it, but maybe he missed it. There's a Bill James article that shows how to calculate it. As I understand it -- the formula is based expected results are based on an average for the era. Then calculating how many opportunities they would have had relative to that number based on runners on first and then adjusting for ground balls.
We could be skeptical of how accurate that is for a lot of reasons but none of them really matter because ultimately they are measuring a league average for teams that put players that are, at the least, competent at turning the double play at 2B and SS.
In OOTP, you can put an incompetent player at a position where they need to turn a double play (part of the fun of the game, but not something a real major league team would do except in the rarest of circumstances) and they will do it at a competent rate. This is my central problem with this since we can't actually see these players play. Is there another rating in OOTP where you would see the minimum and expect a player to be competent (not necessarily average, but not a disaster) when performing a skill related to that task? I'm asking seriously because I can't think of one.