Monday, April 17, 2006

No Fielding Bible in '07?

Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times conducted an interview with John Dewan, the author of the Fielding Bible. It's a good read. One item really struck me, however:
Dave: Are you going to publish the Fielding Bible next year?

John: Good question. I don’t know. It was a lot of work and when I finished writing it, I was certain that I would never publish another book like that again. Within a week or two, I felt better, but I don’t know. Maybe we’ll do it every three years.
In the two+ weeks I've owned the Fielding Bible, I've become completely reliant on it. It has more, and better (as far as I can tell) fielding information than any other resource I've found. That's great for this year, but come next year I'm really going to be hurting for updates on these data--particularly '06 versions of the player-specific fielding info. I don't need the commentaries, but I'm very hopeful that there will be some way to purchase the data--I'd gladly pay another $10 for a downloadable spreadsheet, for example. We'll see. Fielding stats are really starting to take off, so I can't imagine we won't see additional sources for this kind of information this offseason.

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