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Originally Posted by traveller79
I noticed in previous seasons that WAR totals changed between the season and offseason, sometimes dramatically. I chalked it up to adjustments in replacement level at season's end.
But last night I took note of my Mookie Betts card's values and checked it against today's totals. The 2029 WAR had adjusted as expected, but so had all previous seasons, which is not how WAR is calculated--each component of WAR is weighted for replacement level in that particular season, not all players in all times. Babe Ruth's 1927 WAR is not weighted against Mike Trout's performance in 2019 and would not shift according to the performance of players before or after 1927; the same should be true for Perfect Team seasons.
I hadn't noticed this happening in my OOTP seasons, so I'm assuming that Perfect Team includes every new season in its overall calculations of replacement level within a particular league level (discrete replacement levels for Perfect, Diamond, etc), which would have a natural deflationary effect on previous seasons' WAR calculations as more packs are opened and better cards pulled (with allowances for new players and teams).
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Nothing you say is false about how WAR is calculated but for them to use the lastest MLB WAR v. 2.2? in the game wouldn't really be correct either...because it's Perfect Team generated statistics in Iron, Bronze, Silver, Diamond & Perfect Leagues. The W in WAR stands for Wins so I think anyway that the number they are showing is a better number for using some formula related to the sims than what they've done with historic stats in MLB... the number they show should give you an idea of how well the player performed better if it is related to the leagues you are simming in & not the way real-life historic WAR is calculated. The stat is a nice broad one but kind of kooky IMO anyway...
Anyway, WINS above replacement is likely to change if the A. replacement or B. competition changes.