Hey Alan, thank you for watching! In terms of batting average, the only thing that counts are basehits. A HBP, a BB and a sacrifice do not count as At Bats, therefore they do not effect batting average. However, they DO effect OBP because that takes plate appearances into account instead of at bats. So if you've come to the plate 10 times, let's say you've walked in 5 of those appearances and struck out the other 5. You'd be 0-5, with an average of .000. However, you'd have a .500 OBP because you still reached base in 50% of your plate appearances. Similarly, a dropped 3rd strike counts for both just like a strikeout would. So in our scenario of 10 plate appearances with 5 strikeouts and 5 walks, let's say one of them was a dropped 3rd strike and you reached 1st base. You'd still be 0-5 but your OBP would be .600 since you reached base in 60% of your plate appearances. We hope this helped! Thanks again for watching!!

Yeah as time has gone on, I'd tend to agree. I rely more on WRC+/OPS+ than most other stats when evaluating offensive players these days

I agree. I like the idea of trying to calculate how affective a player is overall but WAR is a confusing mess.

My pleasure!

Happy to help, Jon!

True! I think they had to take into consideration just how rare a Triple Crown is! Both players were more than deserving!

For sure Diaz! Happy to have you on board! We hope we can help you on your baseball journey!

I agree! Judge will win MVP because of the 61 homers and the triple crown but i think Ohtani deserves it more

I feel ohtani would be Incredibly more valuable if he was playing in the NL before the DH. Because the other team would have their shitty pitcher batting instead of a DH who is good. Ohtani would stand out so much more

@@thefourthperspective that’s actually a really good point

@@thefourthperspective Not really because he would only bat every other four days, his contributions would diminish

@@fernandoaguilar1125 my bad, I would assume he could play right field for 3 of those days

Does WAR take into account how much a player is being paid compared to their replacement??

Outfield in particular is tricky. Mookie could certainly play CF if need be and obviously 2B as well. Calculating how he equates to a player at each of those positions is nearly impossible

This is a great question, I've never thought about it but that would be interesting. I was also wondering about how the ballpark can play a role in WAR. Pitchers especially in Coors field or even parks like in Boston or Cincinnati where homers can be much easier than in other parks like in San Francisco or San Diego, like is it fair to give players the same credit playing in more difficult parks for their skill set? IDK

I dont believe it takes into account the cost but I do think (I could be wrong) it does take into account ballpark. If not, there should be ballpark adjusted stats that would be relative to that players home park

It's relatively simple to adjust WAR to account for salary. If a player has a WAR of, say, 3.9 and earns $2,600,000, then you could define WAR$ as 3.9/2.6 = 1.5.

@@JayTemple so relatively speaking Mike Trout on a rookie contract is more valuable than Mike Trout on a max contract when on field statistics are the same?

@@kylorenkardashian79 Yes. Admittedly, it gets complicated if he signs a contract with differing dollar amounts in each season.

Bro thanks for subbing way back then! Content will certainly be a tad different now but I appreciate you!

We did! Baseknock ended up being a trial run and now here we are! You're an OG!

Yeah its honestly so hard to compare players from different eras. Especially with a Stat as arbitrary ad WAR

WAR doesn't compare players to just their position

Shohei Ohtanis War: Just so so so high. That's my best calculation

@@MarinerMojoOfficial this year, he has the second highest WAR, but it is combined between two positions. Judge is having a historic season.

Hopefully this video helped a bit! Overall, WAR is just one of the many ways to view how good a player is. 5+ WAR is a REALLY good player

@@MarinerMojoOfficial my main issue with it now is what truly defines the level of the "replacement player" because from what i am seeing the replacement player is not suppose to be as good as a platoon caliber player but yet, depending on the team, a player has to put up all star caliber numbers in hitting, baserunning, and fielding just to be 0.1 of a game above a replacement player? The only thing i see it measuring is how many good games can you play, in these three categories at all yimes, before the coaching staff deems you replaceable

Yeah its a tough one to pin down honestly. I believe they take the WAR of every player and divide it up somehow to find the "replacement" level player. Honestly, it's a very imperfect stat. Even BaseballReference and Fangraphs have different WAR calculations😅 When I look at a player, WAR is usually like the third or fourth thing I use when evaluating them

I completely agree honestly! I don't think WAR is the end all be all Stat, its certainly more of a Supplemental one!

Different places measure WAR differently. bWAR (Baseball Reference WAR) and fWAR (Fangraphs WAR) often differ and sometimes they differ alot. WAR has a lot of trouble valuing a player like Ty France for example. He's so good defensively at first base but they don't value first base defense as say, 2B defense. So an Average defensive player at 2B could rank higher than an excellent defensive player at 1B.

Honestly no. Just like Batting Average isn't a good Stat, it only tells half the story

Thanks for your very helpful and insightful comment!! It means a lot, happy that you enjoyed it!