HEAD-TO-HEAD: Consistency series, part II—Potential QC risers and fallers

Introduction

As discussed in Part I of our Consistency Series, quality-consistency scores (QC scores) provide us with a useful metric to measure the consistency of a player's week-to-week performance. In Part II, we analyze which players might become more consistent 2014, as well as who might be less consistent.

Finding a Metric that Might Lead to Improved QCs—Hard Contact Index

At their heart, QC scores focus on BPV, which means that they are fairly well-rounded in evaluating a player's performance. But they are not perfect. They do not consider those players who consistently made hard outs in 2013. Evaluating bad luck in 2013 might lead to a prosperous 2014. So let's figure out who has QC upside in 2014.

Hard Contact Index ("HctX") is...

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