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Originally Posted by Timofmars
If you want to compare players on a single overall value like WAR, it seems like the best you could do is just take the averages for the season across all situations, like how many runs a single adds on average.
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That's, basically, how linear weights are created. wOBA is based of linear weights. WAR uses wOBA.
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But maybe there is room for more situational values, because I think a player's value on one team or in one place in the batting order or whatever might be different if they were on a different team or place in the batting order.
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Sure. One could absolutely do this.
Teams almost certainly do this.
WAR specifically avoids doing this. The idea being to measure all players on an equal playing field.
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This kind of information could be useful to teams in finding players better suited to particular spot on their team than how they are currently be used in another team. So WAR is a nice general number for overall comparison, but there's a lot of potential for more specific situational comparison calculations.
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Absolutley.