Situational Underlying Value for Baseball, Football and Basketball

Zusatztext

Situational Underlying Value (SUV) arose from an attempt to develop an all-encompassing statistic for measuring clutchiness for individual baseball players. It was to be based on the run expectancy concept, whereby each base with a certain number of outs is worth some fraction of a run. Hitters/runners reaching these bases would acquire the worth of that base, with the worth being earned by the hitter if he reached a base or advanced a runner, or the runner himself if he advanced on his own (e.g., stolen base, wild pitch). After several iterations, the version for SUV Baseball presented herein evolved, and it is demonstrated via two games. Subsequently, the concept was extended to professional football and NCAA Mens Basketball, both with two example games highlighting selected individual players. As with Major League Baseball, these are team games where individual performance may be hard to gauge with a single statistic. This is the goal of SUV, which can be used as a measure both for the team and individual players.

Autorenportrait

A long career involved with probability and statistics for engineering applications combines well with a life-long interest in sports to yield the concept of Situational Underlying Value (SUV) - a statistic to enable measurement of individual performance in team sports, specifically professional baseball and football, and college basketball.

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