Sabermetrics in College Baseball

by collegesab on Oct 30, 2011 9:37 PM EDT

Hey I am doing an economic research project on sabermetrics in division 3 baseball. The biggest problem that I am running into now is how to value a player in college baseball since they do not get paid. I can create most of the compound stats needed for sabermetrics but without a salary it is hard to decide if a player is undervalued, overvalued or correctly valued. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to give a value players in college?

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What you would need first is all the stats for the division and then run something like:

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/6/10/904571/examining-division-i-college

Put the all the stats into the Markov calculator (base running can be set with defaults and adjusted if the final numbers are off a bunch) and run it. You will then have how much each hit, walk, etc is worth.

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by Jeff Zimmerman on Oct 31, 2011 9:23 AM EDT reply actions

Playing time?

Perhaps the perceived value of a player would be reflected in his playing time? You could look for exceptional performance from players not getting much playing time, but of course that has lots of sample size issues.

Good luck with it!

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by adarowski on Oct 31, 2011 1:49 PM EDT reply actions