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Old 02-25-2008, 09:28 PM   #302
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There's nothing really to add. If I want to see what team was the best in a season, I look at wins. If I want to look at what hitter did the most individually for his team at the plate, I look at VORP. That tells me how much the team would have suffered if this guy was injured and they put a generic bench warmer in his place.

Anything besides that either disagrees completely with the premise of VORP or argues that VORP could be tweaked to weigh "highly leveraged" situations more to better estimate how much someone affected their team's chances of winning games.
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