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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
SABR’s By The Numbers
The latest is up on Phil’s site. I just zipped through it. The one from Wang looks good. And, he reports something interesting that I was going to do (I love it when someone else has the same idea, and does it before me):
The $/WARP for a fourth year player was $.64 million/WARP, for a fifth year player it was $.83 million/WARP, and for a sixth year player it was $1.29 million/WARP. Remember, it cost $1.525 million for every additional WARP in the free agent market.
0.64/1.525 = 42%. 0.83/1.525= 54%. 1.29/1.525= 85%.
What those numbers represent is the cost for the 3+, 4+, and 5+ year player, relative to a free agent. I’ve been using 40%, 60%, 80%, which is fairly consistent with the above set of numbers.