war spreadsheet Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Mets Rest-Of-Season WAR Projections
I'm experimenting with google docs and the ZiPS Rest-of-season projections that are available on all the player pages on fangraphs. I made this spreadsheet to estimate the rest-of-season WAR for each player. Each position figured to have about 500 PA left in the season and I made my own...
Saber-Friendly Blogging 101: Post-dicting 2008
This idea comes from Doghouse over at Federal Baseball and it's really quite simple if you buy into Wins Above Replacement. Basically, the idea is to plug 2008 data for your favorite team into the easy-to-use WAR Spreadsheet and see how closely the team's talent matches their actual win total. ...
Community Projections Best Practices
So with almost 75% of the teams now having leaders for our Community Projections Project, I thought it would be smart to let everyone share their experiences so far. This thread is for sharing ideas, solving problems, and increasing motivation. Feel free to link to anything helpful you or others...
Beyond the Boxscore Community WAR Project 2009
So Sky Kalkman at BTB has asked baseball bloggers to help him out in filling out a massive database grid with win projections for all thirty teams (to see what I have for the Rockies, open the grid and click on the COL tab). The basis for this idea is that fan communities for teams, while biased,...
Community WAR Project 2009
Here's a chance for us internet know-it-alls to put our knowledge to the test. Using the easy-to-use WAR spreadsheet (good instructions for rookies can be found via that link, too), we're going to project the 2009 performance of all thirty teams, player by player. Eventually, this EditGrid...
WAR Spreadsheet Version 1.0
I've made some changes to the WAR spreadsheet in the hopes of making it more accurate and easier to use. Download it by clicking here. Changes since the beta: The option of using OBP and SLG instead of wOBA. Make sure they are park-adjusted, though. To use OBP/SLG instead, change the TRUE...
Help Me Hash Out WAR Spreadsheet Details
I'm hoping I can get some input from smart readers and bloggers who have played around with the WAR spreadsheet: Offensive outs targets. Assuming that a team's wOBA is their OBP (a mediocre assumption), we know how many batting outs they make. Not included are outs of other kinds and outs made...
User-Friendly WAR Spreadsheet (beta)
I've had this WAR spreadsheet sitting around for a couple weeks now, just waiting for the perfect time to present it along with detailed instructions, zero kinks, and some community collaboration. Well, that plan has been scrapped. We're going instead with a "here's the spreadsheet, we'll work...
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