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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Elegant Simplicity of wOBA

By Tangotiger, 07:41 AM

Most of the credit in the linked article should go to The Hidden Game of Baseball, insofar as I’m concerned.  Anyway, yes, exactly:

This is a statistic that says, “Okay, so we know that singles are more valuable than walks, doubles are more valuable than singles, triples more valuable than doubles, and homeruns are more valuable than all of them. I’ll do all the work for you and show you how productive your player has been in one simple, easy-to-understand stat. Okie dokie?”

This is really why I love it, uinlike say OPS (a more cumbersome calculation as well as being less accurate).  OPS bothers me. 

(42) Comments • 2010/07/15 • Sabermetrics • Linear_Weights
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