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RonCo · 02-04-2008, 12:11 PM

Yep.

VORP is VORP. That's all. It's not a holy grail, it's one way to analyze a player's production. The thread started with why you would use it over a guy with more RBI to determine MVP, and the answer is "because it's a better indicator of value as measured by contribution to wins" than RBI. VORP's advantage over OPS is that it's baselined on whatever you want to define replacement level as, hence giving you a very quick read on how much better a player was than other freely available talent. Among VORPs downside is that it doesn't include any fielding influence. It's also positional.

There is no 1 perfect number that means all things.

02-04-2008, 12:11 PM	#179
RonCo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 10,508	Yep. VORP is VORP. That's all. It's not a holy grail, it's one way to analyze a player's production. The thread started with why you would use it over a guy with more RBI to determine MVP, and the answer is "because it's a better indicator of value as measured by contribution to wins" than RBI. VORP's advantage over OPS is that it's baselined on whatever you want to define replacement level as, hence giving you a very quick read on how much better a player was than other freely available talent. Among VORPs downside is that it doesn't include any fielding influence. It's also positional. There is no 1 perfect number that means all things.