New Stats

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December 6, 2005

We've recently acquired a slew of new stats from our stats provider Baseball Info Solutions. While none of them are being graphed yet, I made them available in the “Season Stats” section for each player.

Here is the list of stats that have been added:

GB/FB	Ground Ball to Fly Ball Ratio.
IFFB%	Percentage of fly balls that are infield fly balls.
HR/FB	Percentage of fly balls that are home runs.
IFH%	Percentage of ground balls that are infield hits.
BUH%	Percentage of bunt hits.

IFFB	Total number of infield fly balls.
IFH	Total number of infield hits.
BU	Total number of bunts.
BUH	Total number of bunt hits.

Since these stats have just been added to our database, I haven't done much research on them. It's tough to say whether the particular ratios and percentages added are useful.

There have been two other changes:

1. Some of the existing stats are now carried out an extra decimal point.

2. Choosing a player for comparisons should work a little better now.

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David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.

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