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site</div> <p><b>Baseball Think Factory</b>, abbreviated as <b>BTF</b> or <b>BBTF</b>, was a <a href="/wiki/Sabermetrics" title="Sabermetrics">sabermetrically</a>-oriented <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> web site which featured daily news stories in baseball, with original content contributed by <a href="/wiki/SABR" class="mw-redirect" title="SABR">SABR</a> members such as <a href="/wiki/Dan_Szymborski" title="Dan Szymborski">Dan Szymborski</a>. The site was previously branded as <i>Baseball Primer</i>, and was created in 2001 by the founders of <a href="/wiki/Baseball-Reference" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball-Reference">Baseball-Reference</a>. Contributors who have gone on to work for <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> front offices include <a href="/wiki/Voros_McCracken" title="Voros McCracken">Voros McCracken</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-voros_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voros-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carlos Gomez,<sup id="cite_ref-CBW-DBacks_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBW-DBacks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Tango" title="Tom Tango">Tom Tango</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bill_James" title="Bill James">Bill James</a>' <i>Baseball Abstract</i> books published in the 1980s are widely considered to be the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as <i>baseballthinkfactory</i> and <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Prospectus" title="Baseball Prospectus">baseballprospectus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Baseball Think Factory shut down on December 15, 2023. A site for “refugees” of BBTF was established at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://hallofmerit.boards.net/">https://hallofmerit.boards.net/</a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The site was founded in 2001 by Jim Furtado and Sean Forman of <a href="/wiki/Baseball-Reference" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball-Reference">Baseball-Reference</a> under the name "Baseball Primer," with a matching URL of (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.baseballprimer.com/">http://www.baseballprimer.com/</a>). It lasted until Furtado shut it down December 15, 2023. </p><p>The site's emphasis on sabermetric baseball analysis attracted members of the rec.sport.baseball <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a> groups, and later drew readers of <a href="/wiki/Rob_Neyer" title="Rob Neyer">Rob Neyer</a>'s <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> columns. The early site cultivated spirited discussions as a result of the Usenet veterans' familiarity with each other and the fact that registration was not required to post comments. The site also featured a number of original research articles. </p><p>In 2004, the site was re-branded as "Baseball Think Factory" and was re-built on a different software platform in order to support the growing user population and accommodate user registration and <a href="/wiki/Content_management" title="Content management">content management</a> features. </p><p>BTF mainly hosted baseball discussions. <i><a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a></i> magazine listed the site as an "essential baseball destination," characterizing it as offering "links to significant baseball articles, accompanied by freewheeling, usually informed discussion threads."<sup id="cite_ref-SI_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SI-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lewis_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Lewis (author)">Michael Lewis</a> also mentioned the site (as <i>baseballprimer</i>) in his book <a href="/wiki/Moneyball:_The_Art_of_Winning_an_Unfair_Game" title="Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game">Moneyball</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Moneyball_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moneyball-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SI-Lewis_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SI-Lewis-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Site_sections">Site sections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Site sections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The site featured a number of sections with content for different audiences. These include: </p> <ul><li><i>Baseball Newsstand</i> – a newsblog where baseball-related articles are linked. Entries usually feature an excerpt of the article along with a discussion thread.</li> <li><i>Hall of Merit</i> (abbreviated as the HoM) – a sub-site conceived by Joe Dimino as an alternative to the <a href="/wiki/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" title="National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum">National Baseball Hall of Fame</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cooperstown,_New_York" title="Cooperstown, New York">Cooperstown, New York</a>. The purpose of the HoM is "to identify the best players in baseball history and thereby identify the omissions and errors that can be found in the other venerable institution."<sup id="cite_ref-HoM-Intro_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoM-Intro-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The discussions often appeal to sabermetric criteria, including in-depth understanding of the various historical eras of major league and negro league baseball as well as advanced statistics.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Transaction Oracle</i> – Szymborski posts analyses of major league transactions (player signings and trades), and articles on his ZiPS forecasting system, which is designed to forecast player statistics based on past performance and similarities to other major league players.</li> <li><i>Team Sites</i> – sub-sections of the newsblog that link to articles of interest to specific teams. There currently are four such team blogs: Sox Therapy (<a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>), Gonfalon Cubs (<a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>), Count the Rings (<a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>), and It's Mets...Just Mets (<a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>)</li> <li><i>Game "Chatters"</i> – specific threads on the regular season and postseason major league baseball games (as well as for special events such as the Olympics or the World Baseball Championship). Site members contribute to the group liveblog during these events.</li> <li><i>Dialed In</i> and <i>Primate Studies</i> – sub-sites with original baseball research and more in-depth discussion.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Original_research">Original research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Original research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>BTF has featured numerous original research articles, primarily under the aforementioned sub-sites "Transaction Oracle," "Dialed In," and "Primate Studies." Several analysts such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitchel_Lichtman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mitchel Lichtman (page does not exist)">Mitchel Lichtman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Tango" title="Tom Tango">Tom Tango</a> regularly posted original research articles and participated on discussion and criticism of the work at BTF before going on to establish their own sites and to publish results in book form.<sup id="cite_ref-theBook_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theBook-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Given that statistics characterizing major league offense (batting) are fairly well established, much of the research posted on BTF spotlight defense (fielding) in the form of statistics more accurate than traditional fielding statistics. Examples include: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mitchel_Litchman's_articles_on_ultimate_zone_rating"><span id="Mitchel_Litchman.27s_articles_on_ultimate_zone_rating"></span>Mitchel Litchman's articles on ultimate zone rating</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mitchel Litchman's articles on ultimate zone rating"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Litchman created fielding metrics that use play-by-play records that record the location of individual batted balls. Litchman combines this play-by-play data with his linear-weights system that assigns run values to the various baseball plays and their context within the game (inning, runners on base, score, etc.) Some of his initial articles on the system were posted on BTF.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lichtman's <a href="/wiki/Ultimate_zone_rating" title="Ultimate zone rating">Ultimate zone ratings</a> (UZR) statistics can now be found on the baseball website <a href="/wiki/Fangraphs" class="mw-redirect" title="Fangraphs">Fangraphs</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ZiPS">ZiPS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: ZiPS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Szymborski posts updates from his forecasting system known as "ZiPS" under his sub-site <i>Transaction Oracle</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ZiPS results are also used in his articles evaluating Major League Baseball transactions. These projections can also be found on <a href="/wiki/Fangraphs" class="mw-redirect" title="Fangraphs">Fangraphs</a>, updated for in-season projections. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chris_Dial's_Dialed_In_columns"><span id="Chris_Dial.27s_Dialed_In_columns"></span>Chris Dial's <i>Dialed In</i> columns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Chris Dial's Dialed In columns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dial is a <a href="/wiki/SABR" class="mw-redirect" title="SABR">SABR</a> member who contributes articles to BTF, many focusing on statistics measuring defense. Dial has studied <a href="/wiki/STATS,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="STATS, Inc.">STATS, Inc.'s</a> "zone rating" for years and posts updated statistics based on this data and on <a href="/wiki/Retrosheet" title="Retrosheet">Retrosheet</a> data. Some of Dial's more notable articles include: </p> <ul><li>Dial provides OPD – a statistic estimating a player's overall contribution on offense and defense. Offensive values were generated using <a href="/wiki/Extrapolated_Runs" title="Extrapolated Runs">Extrapolated Runs</a> and defensive values are represented by Dial's DRS (defensive runs saved), which are based on ZR (zone rating) data.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A reflection on generating statistics based on retrosheet play-by-play fielding data, the relative impact of including line drive (LD) data.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Article on how to create a metric to measure a player's performance on defense, based on zone rating (ZR) data. Comparison to Mitchel Lichtman's UZR, which was taken to be the state-of-the-art fielding metric.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Carlos_Gomez's_Bullpen_Mechanics"><span id="Carlos_Gomez.27s_Bullpen_Mechanics"></span>Carlos Gomez's <i>Bullpen Mechanics</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Carlos Gomez's Bullpen Mechanics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gomez is a former college and professional pitcher<sup id="cite_ref-CBW-stats_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBW-stats-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who contributed articles featuring detailed, frame-by-frame analyses of pitcher mechanics. Prior to their publication, the average fan had little access to detailed evaluations of pitchers' mechanics and had to rely on short descriptions gleaned by beat reporters from scouting reports. The <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Diamondbacks" title="Arizona Diamondbacks">Arizona Diamondbacks</a> organization offered him a position as a scout in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-CBW-DBacks_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBW-DBacks-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baseball_Think_Factory&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-voros-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-voros_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFEdes2004" class="citation news cs1">Edes, Gordon (2004-07-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/07/18/figure_on_a_compromise/">"Figure on a compromise"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(2004-09-27). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081012203721/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1108770/index.htm">"Great Site Lines"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1108770/index.htm">the original</a> on 2008-10-12<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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