Again, three tabs, on the same pattern as the batting file.
1) Fielding: This includes some stats at the right inspired by Bill James’s New Historical Baseball Abstract and Win Shares: catchers putouts minus pitchers’ strikeouts, which I tracked game by game, and catchers’ fielding percentages with the strikeouts taken out.
2) Team Fielding: Includes totals by position, and defensive efficiency record (DER).
3) Player Totals: Again, combined totals for each player from all the teams he played for in this case arranged by position (so you see all the shortstops together, all the first basemen, and so on).
Notes on fielding:
--Every box had the basic fielding statistics (PO, A, E). Double plays were undercounted in Chicago games.
--The only estimates that needed to be made were dividing defensive innings and statistics for players who played more than one position in a game (if that information wasn’t available in game accounts). This was done on a game by game basis, taking into account both the player’s defensive and offensive statistics to estimate playing time. Luckily, this isn’t a very important issue, as team rosters were small, and substitutions fairly infrequent.
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