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Wins Above Replacement

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Also known as: WAR

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sabermetrics

In sabermetrics: Bill James and the advent of sabermetrics
…succeeded by various versions of Wins Above Replacement (WAR), which was predicated on the identification of the value of a theoretical “replacement player” (a player readily available, whether from a team’s bench or its farm system). Eventually WAR would become ever more sophisticated, with the different versions propagated on different…
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