When I started writing at this illustrious site earlier this year, I gave myself one strict directive: don’t write about WAR. That might seem kind of strange given that my writing has always been on the analytical side. It probably seems especially odd given that I just spent two weeks making a formal model of contract value that relies pretty heavily on WAR. Still, though, on day one, I was pretty committed to the idea of leaving WAR alone and focusing on stats that could show a player’s skills more directly.
That might seem like a pretty weird one rule to have- how about something like ‘write well’ or ‘don’t cover the same player too often?