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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, July 16, 2013Hochman: Esoteric but useful, baseball’s new superstat is wRC+As Boozer Emerson asked me at the bar…“Does that Baseball-Referral place use it?”
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1. Esoteric Posted: July 16, 2013 at 10:12 AM (#4495575)NJ, there ain't a whole lot of NBA for Hochman to be writing about now. The regular Rockies writers don't seem very interested in this kind of thing.
It's astounding that even in 2013, so many Rockies articles talk about how the team is 1st or 2nd in runs, but 2nd to last in ERA, so the pitching is bad.
What an esoteric way of describing the situation.
Actually, if you want to hear some really great live Genesis tracks from the Gabriel-era, Esoteric can be very useful.
Oh yeah? Does he know what you like (in your music collection)?
wRC+ only weighs offensive contribution. This is better than one that measures offense in essentially the same way and then adds in defense?
(I'm not clear whether wRC+ includes non-stealing forms of baserunning or RoEs either.)
The fg glossary page also says wRC+ is derived from wOBA ... if true this is hilarious since wOBA is nothing but wRCAR/PA slightly recentered for no particularly good reason.
I worry sometimes these saber dudes don't always realize quite what they're doing (cribbing to save space):
RAA = .32*NIBB + .47*1B + .78*2B + 1.17*3B + 1.4*HR - .3*out
RAA "relative per out" = .62*NIBB + .77*1B + 1.08*2B + 1.47*3B + 1.7*HR
RAA "relative per out" = RAA + .3*(NIBB + 1B + 2B + 3B + HR + out)
RAA "relative per out" ~ RAA + .3*PA
Take the average player with RAA of zero and average RAA "relative per out" is of course approximately .3 although this seemed to be news to Tango. (I'm using ~ as approximately equal) .3*PA is ... wait for it ... Rrep (give or take). RAA "relative per out" is RAR.
RAA "relative per out"/ PA ~ RAA/PA + .3
wOBA = (RAA "relative per out" / PA) + (lgOBP - .3) = RAA/PA + lgOBP
Then they calculate:
RAA = (wOBA - lgwOBA)*PA with a squiggle factor
The squiggle factor I think is just trying to get rid of (lgOBP - .3) and the difference between PA and the rest (although I assume IBB, RoE, etc. are in the full calculation).
It's all just going around in circles to get back where they started. You've got your estimate of runs, you know the number of PAs and you have estimates of average (and replacement) runs for a given number of PAs. Nothing is "based on wOBA" because wOBA is just a rescaling of estimated runs, PAs and league average. wRAA and wRC+ are just "unscaling" wOBA back into quantities you already have and then, in the case of wRC+, rescaling again.
I don't necessarily have a problem with rescaling if you think it helps comprehension but they should have realized that RAA "relative per out" was RAR. They should have known that RAR/PA would come out to a mean of .3 -- they designed it to do so! They should have known that wOBA*PA just basically takes them back where they started.
Upshot ... if you want a rate stat, RAA/PA (or RAR/PA per your preference) is all you need. The others are just variations on that.
As an aside, good to see someone calling something a superstat instead of uberstat. More down to earth.
Is that park-adjusted?
That's the upside of wRC+, to me. wOBA isn't, so wRC+ is a park-adjusted rate stat that's an alternative to OPS+.
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