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To: DFG

WAR is a fake stat. Total horsedung.


4 posted on 06/02/2021 4:16:48 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: frogjerk

And even if it wasn’t a fake stat, it’s a meaningless one in the context of a single season. You could have a high WAR rating just because most of the other players at your position happen to suck badly that season.


6 posted on 06/02/2021 4:30:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: frogjerk

dWAR is absurd. Don Mattingly saved SO MANY errors and infield hits as a first baseman who would nail splits that would make a Russian dancer jealous. All-time record high fielding percentage. Lightning reflexes. Literally by far the greatest fielding first baseman of my lifetime. And a negative dWAR.

Greg Nettles has been called “at least the equal” of Frank Robinson at third base, admittedly by Yankee-fan announcers. I never saw Frank, but Greg was the best I ever saw. Also a negative dWAR in 1980, 82, 83.


7 posted on 06/02/2021 4:45:13 PM PDT by dangus
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