Someone with better knowledge of the tools and databases than me should do a small research project. If every team must fill the DH spot, why even have the positional adjustment in the first place? Every team must field a 3b, but there is a positional adjustment for that too. I mean the thing was created by Tom Tango and has been backed up by serious SABR guys since its inception. But if some around here seem to think WAR is broken, then lets see a better evaluation method proposed. WAR has shown to correlate with team winning % to around 80%. That's pretty strong, and that includes UZR, which is panned by many folks around here and other places. So to all these arguments that people like me and thirteen are WAR dogmatists, what's your better method for evaluating baseball players?
For the record, I agree, WAR is not the end all be all, it's not the end of the argument, game set match. There are problems with it, just as there are with any system. But just because it has its holes doesn't mean you can say the system is worthless, or now on par with any other means of evaluating a player.
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