Jim Bowden Is A Sabermagician

But didn’t.

is kicking himself for not coming up with this first. Throw out The Book, all you need is an excel spreadsheet with OPSBIs.

Take this example:

Over the past ten seasons, Player A averaged a .900 OPS and 80 RBI. Player B averaged an .880 OPS and 85 RBI.

Player A is the better player, no? OPBSI says he is — on average, Player A has a .980 while Player B has a .965.

But over the whole decade — important for those “player of the decade” debates, snort — Player A’s OPSBI is 1.700, while Player B 1.730.

How do you possibly devise a stat which leads to a different result based on how you look at it?

OPS-Douchebag Rating

Note: Dicktorino always has a negative record

This is (Grission*Edge) that is weighted for ball parks, local media, and starlets nailed. It is scaled so that 100 = league average.

TPR: That’s Poor Rating

B:B Ratio: Beer-to-Baseball Ratio

how much of a fat toad you are?

General Requirements of Intangible Talent (GRIT)

(Dirt + Determination – Talent) / Opportunity

Seriously, everyone, click here.

Jk

That stands for “OPS – Striking Out Looking on an unhittable Adam Wainwright Pitch.”

Every player in baseball has an OPS-SOLOAUAWP exactly identical to their career OPS, except for Carlos Beltran, who has a 0.

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(grission * WAR * -DF * (.01 * (200 – PF)))

Grission = [((HBP + IBB) * (1 + (CS/SB))) + ((outs – SO) + (BB + SH + SF) + GIDP) – (XBH + RBI + TB + ((OBP – SLG) * 1000))] / PA
WAR = Wins above replacement
DF = Standardized Douchebag factor (Where a positive number denotes douchebagginess, and a negative number denotes the total opposite. A number of “0” indicates the player is probably very boring and inspires little or no discussion, or that their coolness is neutralized by their douchebagginess. All DF comparisons between players are relativ
PF = Park factor

It should come as little or no surprise that Shane Victorino has one of the lowest xGWD numbers out there, at -142.942.