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In Sabermetrics and APBRmetrics, Similarity Scores are a method of comparing baseball and basketball players (usually in MLB or the NBA) to other players, with the intent of discovering who the single most similar historical player is to a certain player. Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. ...
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Like many original sabermetric concepts, similarity scores were first introduced by Bill James, in his 1994 book The Politics of Glory. James initially created the concept as a way to effectively compare non-Hall of Fame players to players in the Hall, to see who was either on track to make the HOF, or to determine if any eligible players had been snubbed by the selection committee. For example, if the most similar players to a non-HOFer were all in the Hall of Fame, one could effectively argue that that player should be in the Hall. Bill James (born October 5, 1949 in Mayetta, Kansas) is an important and influential baseball writer / statistician. ...
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More recently, similarity scores have been used to determine career paths and projected statistics for players. The logic behind this line of thought is simple: players often follow similar career trajectories to their most similar players, so the historical similar players' performance in years after the active player's current age should be a good predictor of that active player's future production. An example of this would be the Football Outsiders' discovery that all but the highest caliber of wide receivers suffer a marked decline after their seventh season in the NFL, a fact that bore out for the recievers selected in the 1996 NFL Draft when their production collectively slipped. [1] Jerry Rice holds many career records for wide receivers in the National Football League. ...
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Many baseball analysts have augmented James' method over the years, or come up with their own system of measuring similarity. John Hollinger developed a similar system for basketball players in his Pro Basketball Forecast series of books, and several APBRmetricians have expanded on his methodology. Similarity scores are also used extensively in many statistical forecasting programs. Baseball Prospectus employs a projection system known as PECOTA which heavily relies on similarities and past performance, while Pro Football Prospectus (written by the Football Outsiders) has their own system (dubbed "KUBIAK" after longtime Broncos backup quarterback Gary Kubiak) for projecting future performance. Hollinger uses his similarity-score method in his statistical-projection system as well. John Hollinger is an influential figure in the field of quantitative analysis in basketball. ...
Baseball Prospectus, sometimes abbreviated as BP, is a think-tank focusing on the statistical analysis of the sport of baseball, which is also known as sabermetrics. ...
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