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Baseball, more so than every other sport, is about the numbers. But does a person need to be up on the latest stats to enjoy the game? Absolutely not. I happen to enjoy reading about WAR, FIP, Winshares, etc but it really is only to help me to enjoy our national passtime in a different way. The sabrmaticians believe that the old standbys: ERA, AVG, RBI were not sufficiently telling us the whole story concerning a players productivity, so they have come up with new ways to help us to measure how much a player actually contributes to wins and losses. But the real story is in the eye of the beholder. I don't need a bunch of fancy stats to tell me that Albert Pujols is a great hitter, but if I want, I can look at the new stats to decide just how great of a hitter Albert really is.
I like having these new stats in OOTP, but I agree that the game should not become reliant on the stats to determine how players will perform. That's why we play the game, because we don't know for sure that any player will perform to match the stats. Just like in real life.
And thanks for the link, ms2002.
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