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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
We've used fWAR for pitchers for a few versions now, batters is new this year.
And yes, the pitcher WAR is controversial. If in the next couple years a true gold standard comes out, I'm sure we'll switch to that, but for now the Fanrgaphs version is good for us. Plus I like it  |
Yeah, people just have some concerns over using FIP when calculating WAR when WAR is used to calculate what happened on the field while FIP isn't what actually happened, but what really/could have happened. (I can't explain it, whatever) Just seems odd to me, I don't see how FIP fits with a stat like WAR.