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In response to "So ive seen it but i dont quite ubderstand it what is this new WAR stat that they use in baseball? -- nm" by eag

It's a complex calculation that supposedly takes every facet of play into account to say how much better than Replacement Level a player is

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Jan 5 '14, 12:25

Wins Above Replacement --- basically a player who is your prototypical AAAA player -- not good enough to matter, but not bad enough to fail at Triple-A.

Problem with the stat is that it's calculation is uneven even between different groups.

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I dislike stats that you can't calculate from sitting there and watching the game. -- nm - Tim Jan 5, 13:20 4
- I'm not a fan of that, but what really loses me is that you can have different values between groups calculating them. - Will Hunting Jan 5, 13:27 3
  - I'm pretty sure they fixed that for 2013. -- nm - David Jan 5, 13:43
  - It's an analysis stat - of course there's going to be some variance. -- nm - Reagen Jan 5, 13:34
  - Right, which is also a failure of the stat. -- nm - Tim Jan 5, 13:33

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It's a complex calculation that supposedly takes every facet of play into account to say how much better than Replacement Level a player is

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