I love advanced metrics. I love reading about them, I love seeing how people develop them and I love seeing how they apply to the sports I love. Baseball is a sport that has been engulfed by advanced metrics. When I was a kid, you knew about a players batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. You knew if the guy could hit 30 homeruns, score 100 runs, drive in 100 runs or steal 30 bases. You didn’t know about OBP [on-base percentage + slugging percentage], you didn’t know about ERA+, WHIP, OPS+, BABIP or any of the other countless metrics that have come out.
Despite What BillC Says, Virginia Tech Ain’t 10 Points Better Than WVU
