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In Defense of OPS

In Defense of OPS

Jun 04, 2019
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On Twitter, pals and co-authors Tom Tango and Mitchel Lichtman had a fun little argument about two interesting baseball statistics, OPS (On Base Plus Slugging Percentage) and wOBA (Weighted On Base Average).

Tango made the solid argument that OPS is a mathematical crime -- you are adding together fractions that do not have the same denominator (which, yo…

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