As I am wont to do, I am going to spend today constructing a football metric based on baseball statistics. Our victim of theft from baseball today is Weighted On Base Average,wOBA. The Fangraphs library tells us:
Weighted On-Base Average combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value. While batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage fall short in accuracy and scope, wOBA measures and captures offensive value more accurately and comprehensively.
wOBA takes the basic idea of a slugging percentage and enhances it.