April Recollections

It has been a whirlwind first month on the job. For those of you who don't know and have stumbled here, I am a 22 year old working an internship in Coplay, PA for a company called Baseball Info Solutions. They provide a lot of different statistical analyses and all sorts of other stuff to major league teams, fantasy baseball websites and superfans that have millions of dollars (Yes, Rob Neyer is one of many clients of this company).

My main job is to score live baseball games as they occur (Oh, but this is ENHANCED scoring) and then chart games the next day.

The enhanced scoring lies on the principles of John Dewan's Fielding Bible, which is one of the many innovative things BIS (short-hand, get used to it) has come up with and is available at a store near you. We have 53 defensive misplays that can be assigned to a given play. These plays aren't errors, but they are, well, misplays. Everything from misplaying a ground ball, to losing a ball in the sun, to deferring to another player, to a bad throw, it's in there. But, because they are equal opportunity, we also have about 25 GFP's (Good Fielding Plays) that can also be assigned on any given play. These range from a diving play to get a guy out, diving to keep a ball in the infield to a great scoop and anything along those lines.

Any questions about the happenings at BIS? Let me know.