joshheines wrote:So, I'm sitting here thinking, man, OPS is a BS statistic that has become popular because it's A) simple and B) get's you to magical numbers like 1.00. However, the stat is wholly fallacious, faulty and inaccurate. It's a statistic that attempts to represent a player's overall batting ability; however, OPS rewards those players with gaudy batting averages and hurts those players with pedestrian or below average batting averages. OPS represents a player AVG twice. It gets factored once in OBP and then again in SLG.
In my mind, it's more accurate to take the base OBP and add in (SLG-AVG[isolated power]). This is the true mark of OPS. The present OPS stat inflates guys like Pujols, Manny, Berkman and Dye and deflates guys like Giambi, Dunn and Glaus. For purposes of real baseball don't we want to know how many total bases and player has created? Then why do we count all hits twice? Doesn't make sense.
Under the present OPS system Giambi is ranked 9th, Dunn is 19th and Glaus is 27th. Under my proposed (to no one except the cafe) OPS, Giambi ranks 3rd, Dunn is 11th and Glaus is 13th.
Conversely, those benefitting from the present OPS are Miguel Cabrera(11th), Joe Mauer(14th), Chase Utley(18th) and Nomar(23rd). Under my system Cabrera ranks 18th, Mauer's 34th, Utley is 31st, and Nomar ranks 35th. Mauer's drop is indicative of what is wrong with the present system.
Any thoughts?
I fail to see how OPS counts a players average twice.
OPS = OBP + SLG
You can be 0 for the season and still have an OBP.
Am I wrong on this?, because I just don't see how its counted twice.
my complaint with ops is how it undervalues speed guys.
guys like furcal, pierre, reyes usually have between .650 to .800 ops. however, i would think they are worth more than guys like overbay and matsui, who are around .850-.890 ops.
i mean, giambi has an ops of 1.000 and obp of over .400, while reyes has ops of .800 and obp of .300-.350, but reyes is much more likely to score than giambi because of his speed.
i think a stolen base should count in total bases, and it should factor in slugging percentage as well.
if giambi hits a double, and reyes hits a single and successfully steals a base, isn't it the same thing? what if giambi doubles, and reyes successfully singles then steals both 2nd and 3rd? should he still have lower TB/SLG%?
as for counting avg twice, i never really noticed it before. i mean, a guy like ichiro who'll have a .340 avg still only has .850 ops max, while dunn always has at least around .900+ ops.
still, whatever problems ops might have, it's still better than avg and obp in my opinion. i don't think ops needs to be completely thrown out the window, just modified.
i think a stolen base should count in total bases, and it should factor in slugging percentage as well.
if giambi hits a double, and reyes hits a single and successfully steals a base, isn't it the same thing? what if giambi doubles, and reyes successfully singles then steals both 2nd and 3rd? should he still have lower TB/SLG%?
It counts the same in some situations, but not all. For all of Reyes' speed he scores at a rate just barely over Giambi's (18% vs 17%). When you add in Giambi's overwhelming advantage at driving runners in you get the difference in run producing that is shown in OPS.
i think a stolen base should count in total bases, and it should factor in slugging percentage as well.
if giambi hits a double, and reyes hits a single and successfully steals a base, isn't it the same thing? what if giambi doubles, and reyes successfully singles then steals both 2nd and 3rd? should he still have lower TB/SLG%?
It counts the same in some situations, but not all. For all of Reyes' speed he scores at a rate just barely over Giambi's (18% vs 17%). When you add in Giambi's overwhelming advantage at driving runners in you get the difference in run producing that is shown in OPS.
I agree with you but if Giambi and Reyes played on the same offense Reyes's % of scoring would be much higher than Giambi's, IMO.
i think a stolen base should count in total bases, and it should factor in slugging percentage as well.
if giambi hits a double, and reyes hits a single and successfully steals a base, isn't it the same thing? what if giambi doubles, and reyes successfully singles then steals both 2nd and 3rd? should he still have lower TB/SLG%?
It counts the same in some situations, but not all. For all of Reyes' speed he scores at a rate just barely over Giambi's (18% vs 17%). When you add in Giambi's overwhelming advantage at driving runners in you get the difference in run producing that is shown in OPS.
I agree with you but if Giambi and Reyes played on the same offense Reyes's % of scoring would be much higher than Giambi's, IMO.
You think Reyes would be better off with ARod, Posada, Bernie Williams, and Melky Cabrera batting behind him than with LoDuca, Beltran, Delgado, and Wright? You should have turn in your Mets fan card now. The Mets only score about 0.10 less runs a game with a pitcher in the #9 hole.
i think a stolen base should count in total bases, and it should factor in slugging percentage as well.
if giambi hits a double, and reyes hits a single and successfully steals a base, isn't it the same thing? what if giambi doubles, and reyes successfully singles then steals both 2nd and 3rd? should he still have lower TB/SLG%?
It counts the same in some situations, but not all. For all of Reyes' speed he scores at a rate just barely over Giambi's (18% vs 17%). When you add in Giambi's overwhelming advantage at driving runners in you get the difference in run producing that is shown in OPS.
but a difference in OPS of around .300? (on average, depending on the leadoff and the slugger.) wouldn't counting SBs in SLG% make it more accurate? i have no problem with giambi's OPS being higher in the end due to the difference in driving in runs, but it seems like under the current OPS leadoff hitters are valued TOO little.
i would imagine if SBs are counted in TBs and SLG%, the OPS would be a lot closer, but still lower for leadoff hitters, except for the top top ones who could end up with higher ops than sluggers (i.e. damon in his 123 RUN 20 HR 94 RBI 19 SB .857 OPS 2004 year, crawford in his 101 RUN 15 HR 81 RBI 46 SB .800 OPS 2005 year, etc). which is fine. i think damon and crawford in those years were certainly worth more than a slugger like dunn (105 46 102 6 .956 in 2004 and 107 40 101 4 .927 in 2005) or something.
it's not perfect, but just better than the current definition of OPS.
OPS is a superior version of avg and SLg and OBP. Its far from perfect. Pitchers are still generally rated by ERA which is the worst stat ever created so if you want to complain about a crappy stat complain about that one.
i think a stolen base should count in total bases, and it should factor in slugging percentage as well.
if giambi hits a double, and reyes hits a single and successfully steals a base, isn't it the same thing? what if giambi doubles, and reyes successfully singles then steals both 2nd and 3rd? should he still have lower TB/SLG%?
It counts the same in some situations, but not all. For all of Reyes' speed he scores at a rate just barely over Giambi's (18% vs 17%). When you add in Giambi's overwhelming advantage at driving runners in you get the difference in run producing that is shown in OPS.
but a difference in OPS of around .300? (on average, depending on the leadoff and the slugger.) wouldn't counting SBs in SLG% make it more accurate? i have no problem with giambi's OPS being higher in the end due to the difference in driving in runs, but it seems like under the current OPS leadoff hitters are valued TOO little.
It would only be more accurate if you take into account caught stealing and pickoffs as well. Every time a player gets caught stealing you'll need to somehow subtract from their OBP and SLG. Needless to say it quickly gets very messy and the whole advantage of OPS as a quick-and-dirty stat is eliminated.
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by Field » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:02 pm 
