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• How Good a Measure is Zone Rating? - David Archibald's analysis of Zone Rating (Added: 15-Feb-01) Author: David Archibald

• Catching Up With The General: A Postscript - A smaller followup study to the original Field General Or Backstop article, looking further into catcher's defense. (Added: 28-Nov-00) Author: Keith Woolner

• Defensive Runs - Tim Shippert's work on convertin Defensive Average (DA) to fielding runs. (Added: 15-Feb-01) Author: Tim Shippert

• Description of Defensive Average (DA) - DA explained by creator Sherri Nichols (Added: 28-Nov-00) Author: Keith Woolner

• Field General or Backstop? - Evaluating the Catcher's Influence on Pitcher Performance. An article from the 1999 Baseball Prospectus that takes an in-depth comprehensive look at catcher's game calling, the magnitude of the effect, and whether it exists as a persistent skill across catchers. (Added: 28-Nov-00) Author: Keith Woolner

• Image of Defensive Average (DA) areas of responsibility - "Project Scoresheet tracks the location of every batted ball in every game for the past several years, using a chart like this one. ""Defensive Average"", or DA, is the rate at which fielders turn balls hit into their zones into outs." (Added: 28-Nov-00) Author: Keith Woolner

• Image of Zone Rating (ZR) zones - "STATS, Inc. devised their own system of zones to track locations of batted balls. STATS uses this data to measure a fielder's ""Zone Rating"", or ZR." (Added: 28-Nov-00) Author: Keith Woolner

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