Fielding Win Shares
J.P. has a nice review of fielding Win Shares in his blog, inspired by the 2006 Win Shares posted at the Hardball Times. Here are the links to his main posts:
Outfield Defensive Win Shares
Tweaking Defensive Win Shares
More Defensive Talk
I agree with J.P. that fielding Win Shares should have negative totals for certain players (something Bill James would almost certainly disagree with) but he underestimates how hard it would be in this post. Essentially, giving players negative fielding Win Shares would require totally different formulas than the current ones.
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