VORP calculation, conversion - possible?

by cephyn on Feb 2, 2007 4:33 PM EST Comment 1 comment

Jeez the offseason is TOO LONG. Killing me. Come on baseball!!!

So Neyer had a short article on ESPN today about VORP. I showed it to a non-saberfriendly pal. His biggest question was: OK, so how well does Joe Mauer do if you move him to first base?

Is there a VORP calculator out there? Is the formula and the numbers needed readily available? And can you apply a conversion to a VORP score directly, or do you need to recalculate from the start?

If someone has this or an excel sheet that will do it, I'd love to play with it - if not, then if someone can point me to the formulas and data, I might build something myself.

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Not really an answer

The numbers needed aren't readily available, I don't think.

You could hack it by looking for players at each position with 0.0 VORP, which should give you the baseline. VORP uses much more than just OBP and SLG, but you could figure out the approximate run difference between those positions using the short RC formula (AB*OBP*SLG).

If you come up with anything, let us know. That'd be great.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 3, 2007 3:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs