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Originally Posted by One Great Matrix
No, sir. It is a conceptual statistic. It is related to an imaginary baseline player & how much better a given player is than that player, how many wins he is likely to add to the team. In the game if the team changes levels then the same player will have a different WAR. Much like if the calculation for WAR changes (the comparison player, or baseline), the player ends up with a different WAR.
Babe Ruth career WAR listed as 162.1.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ruthba01.shtml
WAR v. 2.2 explained.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/a...xplained.shtml |
In real-life, historical WAR values only change if the source changes their formula for it, as your link explains above. Babe Ruth's WAR will stay at exactly 162.1 at Baseball-Reference unless they change the formula.
In the game though, historical WAR values change because they're not storing the actual WAR values. The game substitutes in your current league averages in place of historical league averages, which dramatically distorts historical WAR figures, making them basically useless, especially if you're jumping or dropping through tiers.
Obviously, it would be better to store the actual historical WAR values. It's mis-leading to include historical WAR on player cards when they're known to be incorrect. Regardless of your opinions on the value of WAR as a statistic, it's a fact that WAR's behavior in PT does not match real-life.