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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Thanks, eg. That approach worked for generations and feels more substantial then the current scientific alternatives. However, thanks to OOTP, I am slowly coming around to some new stuff, if only in the context of OOTP, not baseball itself. For example, I find myself following WAR in OOTP because, basically, I trust Markus to do something like that right even though I will never know quite what he does in that regard.  |
If you gave me 1 night and an open mind, I could convince you that sabermetrics is going in the right direction (in regards to real baseball), some of the advanced stats are the best we have to evaluate performance, and that it's still not perfect. There is still no single stat that lets you evaluate players head to head alone, which is probably a good thing, because then the game would be boring. Knowing which stats to use, knowing which stats to ignore (even when they're typically reliable), and evaluating based on what you are looking for exactly (what do you mean by best player, Pitcher A might be better than Pitcher B but Pitcher B is a better fit for Team C) is the coolest part about sabermetrics.