The Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the FansPart 2 - The Most Similar Fielders (2002 - 2003)© Tangotiger
Background
If you are new to this project, you should read about it first.
The Preliminary Results
Thank you to all those who participated! I've received almost 500 ballots (and am still accepting them until Opening Day). I thought it would be a little fun to look at some early returns. For this particular article, it will simply be various lists of the most similar fielders, as you fans see them. I've developed a program that identifies the most similar fielders, based on the results of the 7 characteristics that the fans evaluated.
Notes
To qualify for these lists, a player had to have at least 5 ballots for a category. 300 of the 499 players on the ballots qualified. The player who received the most number of ballots was Derek Jeter, with 58. I rejected 1.2% of the ballots (6 in all) for nonsensical selections. In one case, a fan marked all traits for all players as "1", meaning "poor".
Some players, like Vladimir Guerrero, has no very similar players. His most similar is Raul Mondesi, and this player is marked with a "*". There are some players, like Jeremy Giambi, who does not even have somewhat of a similar player. You will find an empty entry for such players.
|
The Most Similar Fielders