In an age where advanced stats and analytics are furthering the game, it’s becoming increasingly important to understand more of the ins and outs of sabermetrics and how exactly to use each stat that’s been created. Casual baseball fans probably don’t know much about things like wRC+, wOBA, DRS, or UZR. It can be too complicated and different, so they’d rather just brush over them. The one stat they probably are somewhat familiar with, though? WAR.
WAR (Wins Above Replacement) has become the golden child of advanced stats, doing its best to estimate how valuable a player is above a league average replacement level player.