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Keep in mind that WAR has massive error bars.. at least +/- 1 full WAR. This means that a 4-war player may not be as good as a 3-war player.
WAR is an extremely complicated stat that no one here has calculated from base data and contains lots of normalizations and "judgement calls" that increase its variability. Did you know that player salaries are a component?
As someone involved in sabermetrics very early on, I have come to hate WAR, btw. It's literally like the worst stat ever made. It's everything that we baseball stat geeks ever wanted (a single value stat to rate players), but to get it we had to remove all meaning, accuracy, and verifiability. So now we have this number that everyone uses without question and its inaccurate and useful for just one thing only... ranking players.
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