A Critique of fWAR: Inferential and Sensitivity Studies of the Baseball Wins Above Replacement Metric

Section 1: Introduction Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is an estimation of the number of wins a baseball player brings his team, more so than a designated replacement level player. Any given WAR equation is composed of dozens of different calculations that incorporate dozens of different existing baseball metrics. WAR gained popularity on fangraphs.com as aContinue reading “A Critique of fWAR: Inferential and Sensitivity Studies of the Baseball Wins Above Replacement Metric”