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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Blogosphere Question of the Day, 06/24; OR Why should OPS die?
Inside The Book blog reader asks his blog readers this question:
I was catching up on the issues of By the Numbers and read the following quote in the the November 2008 issue:
“An OPS of .800 will always generate more runs than an OPS of .700, given the same amount of playing time.”
I know the above statement is not always true, but do you? I want to give out a prize and decided that I the first person to prove that it is false, using math, will get to choose the first team I will study in depth with my new disabled list database. I know it is not much, but that is all I can really offer. Hopefully there will be more of these to come in the future.
One of his readers already gave out the answer, and not the theoretical mumbo-jumbo I am about to give below. He actually found real-life examples (though I suspect that maybe SB was in there, or park factors, or something). It’s for this reason that I want OPS to die a quick death among serious analysts (as well as its offshoot, the less obscene OPS+). It can survive for quick things. Anway here’s my answer:
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