Well, not fight, anymore. More like, accept. WAR is here and has become so popular that I feel the need to wrap my head around it and actually use it! (Folks who know me, don't gasp in astonishment. Even dinosaurs plod ahead a few steps from time to time.
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I am NOT going to ask OOTPD to divulge its calculations of WAR. Not only is it a well-guarded secret like the formula of Coca-Cola, but it would probably take pages of glassy-eyed technical explanations such as
this one at Baseball Reference.
Instead, I would ask a simple question which I would hope someone in the know would answer. Please see this
WAR Comparison Chart (which, by the way, I fully expect OOTPB to be another column therein someday).
If you, Mr. Person-In-The-Know, had to select which of the five alternative definitions listed there, which one would most closely approximate the definition of WAR used in OOTPB? Here is the top of the chart so that you can get an idea of what I am talking about
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