MGL’s Recent Musings

Mitchel Lichtman (MGL), the creator of UZR, has been setting the record straight on UZR, among other things, over and over and over again. Here’s his most recent interview, and some other links worth reading if you’d like gain more insight on UZR and baseball data in general:

Newsday: Bellmore’s Lichtman shows his baseball knowledge through UZR

Comment: The difference between offensive and defensive statistics

Answering: What kinds of factors skew statistical analyses of defense?

Comment: The differences between UZR and +/-

Sample Size and the Granularity of Data [John Smoltz]