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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/7/24

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Dan Szymborski

1:00

No, I'm just focused on losing weight

Big Cubs fan

1:01

Hey Dan, need your advice. I got a Wrigley Field puzzle for Christmas in 2020, but have refused to start it as the Cubs traded away Yu Darvish less than a week later. Should I get over my issues with Tom Ricketts and just do the damn puzzle?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

do the damn puzzle

I mean, if you complete the puzzle, you don't owe Ricketts money or something, do you?

Guest

1:01

How does zips determine defensive profile when a player plays multiple positions? Do they look at only one position or split them up?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I project them at the position they've played the most in recent years

(generally)

1:02

I think it's easier for someone to look at a projection and see "SS" then some unknown blend of different positions

BEEDLE DEE

1:02

do the puzzle while looking at Owen Caissie's statcast page

Guest

1:02

ATC has that set of measurements to tell us which players have the biggest differences between projections from whatever different systems he uses to create the ATC numbers, but is there any way to see which players have the largest or smallest differences between- say - their 20th and 80th percentile projections for ZiPS?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Subtraction ideally! Didn't I do a piece on this or give someone data for one?