Go Vote in the 2016 Fans Scouting Report!

Are you a baseball fan? Do you have access to the internet? I bet you do, because it’d be weird for you to be reading this post otherwise. Well, baseball fan who has access to the internet, it’s your lucky day, because Tom Tango’s Fans Scouting Report is back, and you can go participate in it!

By Tango’s own admission, this is his favorite project. He (and us here at FanGraphs, since we house the results on our both our player pages and leaderboards) are always looking for your help. Last year, Mike Trout only got eight votes. Hopefully he’ll get more this season!

This season, there is an added incentive, for the nerdiest among us. I’ll let Tango tell you all about it:

This year more than any, it comes at a perfect time, thanks to Statcast. Over the coming months, I should be able to come up with a Statcast-based version of a Fielding Scouting Report that mirrors this project. And we’ll be in a great position to compare the results of what the fan sees to what the radar/camera sees.

Well that’s just all sorts of awesome. So go vote and help give the 14th year of Fans Scouting Report its most robust data set ever!





Paul Swydan used to be the managing editor of The Hardball Times, a writer and editor for FanGraphs and a writer for Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Now, he owns The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Acton, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @Swydan. Follow the store @SilUnicornActon.

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bunslow
8 years ago

Hah! Cubs fans unite!