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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
It is still subjective. One calculates it different from the other. If there is no standard, if there is no agreement then it is still opinion. fangraphs may have set way of calculating it, but it is their set opinion that it is the best way to figure it. Same for B-R. All it means is they aren't willing to change their opinion.
No one has changed their opinion on how to calculate BA. It is standardized. It is agreed upon. All the websites calculate that FACT the same way. It is not a creation. It is.
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It hasn't changed because batting average was created soon after baseball became organized. If it was created today, it would have been changed to something closer to OBP or slugging or wOBA.
Batting average wouldn't exist if it was attempted to be created today, it falls into the same criteria you are describing. Today, there isn't one person creating all the stats. There are hundreds of thousands of people judging and assessing all of this.