As the field of sabermetrics begins to age, it is reaching wider and wider acceptance. At some point, you have to believe that it will impact the more subtle areas of baseball, like baseball cards. If you were working at Topps and were thinking about changing the stats on your cards to include a new sabermetric stat, which one would it be and why?
OPS+ and ERA+. They are league and park adjusted numbers that at a quick glance can tell you how much better or worse a player is above the average player. Plus people are already familar with the non-adjusted stats.
WPA is a good one too.
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Steve-o wrote:OPS+ and ERA+. They are league and park adjusted numbers that at a quick glance can tell you how much better or worse a player is above the average player. Plus people are already familiar with the non-adjusted stats.
Yeah, I like the + stats as a way to convey the player's relational skill in a concise, understandable manner.
Some stats would just require too much of an explanation to ever work on baseball cards, wouldn't they?
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