{"id":744,"date":"2014-06-18T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2014-06-18T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T01:51:53","slug":"errors-at-different-levels-of-ob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Errors at Different Levels of OB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commish &#038; I were discussing the standards for official scorers giving errors. Should the same standard be applied regardless of the level, or should the standards be higher at the higher levels? <\/p>\n<p>Commish made the excellent point that throwing errors (especially to first) are going to be automatic and are not really subject to any subjective standard. Since these types of errors are obviously made more frequently at the lower levels, we expect the number of errors to go up as the level goes down.<\/p>\n<p>So, I can&#8217;t answer my original question with stats, but I still thought it would be interesting to look at the fielding percentages at the different levels of OB. I used 2013 stats and excluded leagues south of the border.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-18-at-9.36.42-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-18-at-9.36.42-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-18 at 9.36.42 PM\" width=\"442\" height=\"429\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe trend is clear. Actually, it&#8217;s clearer than I expected! When you get down to A ball, errors are twice as likely compared to the Bigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commish &#038; I were discussing the standards for official scorers giving errors. Should the same standard be applied regardless of the level, or should the standards be higher at the higher levels? Commish made the excellent point that throwing errors (especially to first) are going to be automatic and are not really subject to any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=744\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Errors at Different Levels of OB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milb","category-mlb","category-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}