Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Win Shares
A win share is a sabermetric neo-stat created by Moneyballers to assess a players' value to his team. You'll find it detailed on many SABRSites, such as Baseball Propsectus and The Hardball Times. For an old, but good, explation of win shares, click here.
Supposedly, a good way to project a team's wins in the upcoming year is to add up all their players' win shares from the previous season. 2005 win shares can be found here.
Using this team projection formula, I have been able to estimate that the Yankees will win 105 games in 2006, the Mets 89, the Phillies 83, and the Braves 76. Take it for what it's worth.
I'll get to a few more teams in the next few days.
Yuksaku Iriki, Miracle Man
Above is NY Mets pitcher Yusaku Iriki, who Omar Minaya was so impressed by that he gave him a major league contract, thus losing Aarom Baldiris on waivers to the Rangers. Check out Iriki's website, and listen to the background music while you're at it.
Supposedly, a good way to project a team's wins in the upcoming year is to add up all their players' win shares from the previous season. 2005 win shares can be found here.
Using this team projection formula, I have been able to estimate that the Yankees will win 105 games in 2006, the Mets 89, the Phillies 83, and the Braves 76. Take it for what it's worth.
I'll get to a few more teams in the next few days.
Yuksaku Iriki, Miracle Man
Above is NY Mets pitcher Yusaku Iriki, who Omar Minaya was so impressed by that he gave him a major league contract, thus losing Aarom Baldiris on waivers to the Rangers. Check out Iriki's website, and listen to the background music while you're at it.
# posted by Dave @ 9:30 PM 
