wOBA is scaled to OBP for two reasons. First, we're all familiar enough with OBP to be able to eyeball and tell a good percentage from a bad one. Second, it means that league OBP is defined to equal ...
View post: Fantasy Football Week 17 Waiver Wire: Bringing Home a Title Advanced stats like wOBA and wRC+ often feel intimidating, but you don’t need a math background to use them. wOBA and RC+ give a ...
ERA+, FIP, OPS+, wOBA and wRC. What are they, and what do they mean? These stats are some of the many baseball and softball stats that fall under the category of sabermetrics, a better way to show a ...
We continue to scrutinize and update our metrics, and as part of that process we’ve been comparing various offensive metrics to one another. Two of the metrics we’ve checked in on are weighted On Base ...
As I explained in my August introduction post, I’m going to attempt to calculate FanGraphs WAR accurately for Chris Taylor’s 2017 season, in my own spreadsheet. To do this, I expect to make heavy use ...
In 2017, I was the GM of Fantasy Alarm. We were redesigning our lineups pages. I asked the question, “what are the most important statistics for us to show to daily fantasy baseball players?” The ...
In 2017, I was the GM of Fantasy Alarm. We were redesigning our lineups pages. I asked the question, “what are the most important statistics for us to show to daily fantasy baseball players?” The ...