{"id":499210,"date":"2018-07-19T05:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bb8c985ad14a7b2912ee4ff9c86f14a4"},"modified":"2018-07-19T05:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T09:39:46","slug":"are-star-players-over-rated-in-mlb-a-key-statisticwins-above-replacement-playerdoesnt-stand-up-to-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=499210","title":{"rendered":"Are star players over-rated in MLB? A key statistic&mdash;wins above replacement player&mdash;doesn&#8217;t stand up to scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In football, soccer and basketball, player quality has one obvious and inescapable metric: scoring touch-downs, goals, points. In baseball, it&#8217;s more complicated\u2014it isn&#8217;t easy to directly associate a single player&#8217;s play with team wins. This is why &#8220;wins above replacement player&#8221; (WARP) has become so popular: It&#8217;s a statistic that manages to aggregate a player&#8217;s total contribution to their team\u2014offense and defense and primary position\u2014into one easily understood figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In football, soccer and basketball, player quality has one obvious and inescapable metric: scoring touch-downs, goals, points. In baseball, it&#8217;s more complicated&mdash;it isn&#8217;t easy to directly associate a single player&#8217;s play with team wins. This is why &#8220;wins above replacement player&#8221; (WARP) has become so popular: It&#8217;s a statistic that manages to aggregate a player&#8217;s total contribution to their team&mdash;offense and defense and primary position&mdash;into one easily understood figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499211,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499210\/revisions\/499211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}