When I was researching Harrison Bader for my article this past weekend, I found myself on a pretty wild tangent, figuring out exactly how WAR was calculated by Fangraphs. What does that have to do with Harrison Bader’s defense, you might ask? That’s an excellent question! Not much! Moving on. Finding the formula hidden beneath the single number that comes up took a little digging, but not so much because it’s hidden. It’s just very fiddly. You have to account for a lot of different things in a player’s line, and then they aren’t done in WAR units or anything, they’re in their own random units.
Fun with WAR
