By Brian Joura
We all want things to be perfect.
Yet rarely in life do things work out that way. This is so universal that we even have an idiom to describe things that fall short of perfection. You’re probably heard of the saying – don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Which brings us to WAR.
WAR is the baseball statistical community’s best attempt to measure the value of players’ contributions to wins, the “W” in the acronym. Is it perfect? Absolutely not – but then it’s never claimed to be that, either. Some people get hysterical because there’s a decimal place and thinks that gives a level of precision that just isn’t there. You can’t claim a player with a 2.6 WAR is better than one with a 2.5 WAR – it’s just not that precise.
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