2022 Blogmas Day 10 – Win Probability Added

On the heels of evaluating players based on how many wins they can provide to their team, let’s look at how clutch players are. Do they shine in the big moments, or just generally perform well yet fail to make an impact when it truly matters?1This post will conclude the first 10 days of Blogmas, which I decided from the beginning would be dedicated to hitting. The next 10 days will be dedicated to pitching statistics.

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    This post will conclude the first 10 days of Blogmas, which I decided from the beginning would be dedicated to hitting. The next 10 days will be dedicated to pitching statistics.

2022 Blogmas Day 9 – Offensive Wins Above Replacement

Today we move onto one of the gems of advanced baseball statistics1Somehow I’ve gone this long without using the phrase Sabermetrics, which is the catch-all term for many of the derived values we’ve been covering. Its name comes from SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. that generalizes player value beyond concrete elements like hits and runs, and looks specifically at how many wins a player is worth.

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    Somehow I’ve gone this long without using the phrase Sabermetrics, which is the catch-all term for many of the derived values we’ve been covering. Its name comes from SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.

2022 Blogmas Day 4 – Weighted On Base Average

You may have recognized that OBP and SLG each measure slightly different things. OBP is only a measure of whether you got on base, while SLG makes a big fuss over your hits in particular, and how “big” they were. OPS (and even better, OPS+) are a quick summary of these combined, which is cool. However, OPS treats OBP and SLG as essentially equal in their importance, while getting on base is demonstrably of higher value. If you want a more accurate measure of offensive production that is (relatively) simple to calculate, look no further than weighted on base average, or wOBA.

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