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WAR Crimes: Why the concept of WAR simply does not work in football

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At the conclusion of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers were pilloried by most major draft graders, primarily for taking a bunch of safeties and off-ball linebackers. You see, many nerds (not me, different nerds) have put a lot of time and effort into developing “WAR” (Wins Above Replacement) for football, and a big part of creating a WAR statistic is figuring out which positions are more or less valuable, and off-ball linebackers and safeties aren’t valuable. According to these nerds, your team should be composed entirely of quarterbacks.

I kid, but…not really.