I can already tell this article is probably going to drive some of you nuts.
Wins Above Replacement is useful tool that helps tell a story about a player or group of players on a team. Oftentimes it’s an excellent way to assess a player’s worth, but few people know how WAR is calculated and each website that uses it comes to their number differently.
Some people really hate it for some of the reasons I mentioned above. However, we also know that solely using numbers like batting average, ERA or even OPS don’t tell the whole story.