Before I Take Too Long...

[clydepepper]

researching something that someone else on the site has already researched,

On BBR, who are the two most SIMILAR BATTERS of all-time?

I got interested in this when getting tired of Nick Markakis being touted as possible HOF material based on a hot first half to 2018.

His most similar was Cesar Cedeno @ (905.1)

Cedeno's is Amos Otis @ (938.3)


I assume that there have been comparison numbers higher than 938.3


SIMILAR BATTERS is calculated via an involved Bill James formula. I have posed the 'MOST SIMILAR' question to BBR...we will see if they respond.


Anyone on this site know the answer?


Thanks in advance for your assistance,
Raymond

p.s.- I also got tired of the Braves' announcers, slip carey specifically, going on and on about Markakis being such a good player for so long without ever having been an all-star until this year. They overlook that he plays a position, RF, which frequently is manned by team's best or certainly one of their best offensive players...and Markakis is only slightly above average over ALL positions.
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[Peter_Spaeth]

I can only find a list on BBR of players who are most unique -- that is, have the lowest similarity scores to anyone else. Pete Rose was first.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/l...milarity.shtml

[steve B]

It should be the group of players who got one at bat and did almost nothing. Or even something, if there's a few that got one hit in one try.

[Butch7999]

"Similarity score" comparisons aren't provided at BBR for most guys who had extremely short MLB careers,
although Steve would be right, theoretically, a guy whose entire career consisted of, say, 0-for-1, would be
1000.0 identical to another guy with those identical stats.

Ray, you might want to set a minimum number of plate appearances or innings pitched to find what you're
really looking for. Here's a starter pair, found just at random, that involves two guys probably too obscure
and with careers too short to satisfy your search:
Tim Mauser (119 career IP) and Travis Phelps (106 career IP), 993.8 "similar."
Someone else on board can surely find a "similarity score" to top that, but we can't figure out
how to do a search for it at BBR...

[clydepepper]

I just heard back from BBR:


Sorry, but a query like that would be fairly complicated and therefore fall under our custom dataset policy.

- included in the policy explanation is this statement:

We will not fulfill any requests for data for custom downloads, unless you are prepared to pay a minimum of $1,000 for any such request.


So, I guess I know what I'll be working on for the next few months....

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[clydepepper]

Interesting - to me anyway -

the most similar batter to Robin Yount is Paul Molitor @ (845.7)



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