marginal-wins Stories - Purple Row
How Efficient and Effective Were the Colorado Rockies in 2009?
A common theme for Purple Row Academy this entire year has been looking at ways to quantify a player's value to a team, especially through the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stat used notably by FanGraphs. For those who don't understand what WAR is or how it is calculated, here's a crash course from...
Value For money, Part II: The History of the Diamondbacks
In the first part of the series, we explained the principal of Marginal Wins and Margin Cost, as a way of looking at team expenditure in relation to success. We found that the amount teams spent above the minimum possible, per victory above the minimum likely, ranged widely - from 0.67 for the...
Value for money, Part I: What are Marginal Wins?
This afternoon's victory means that the 2009 season is over for the D-backs. Now, we begin the task of analysis. What happened? How do we stop it next year? And, most importantly, can we blame Wailord? These tasks will keep us busy for most of the winter, though we'll have to hold off a bit, until...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Position Players)
In this new series of Purple Row Academy, I will step on the toes of both RMN and TOGB somewhat--in examining the concept of Wins Above Replacement (WAR)--also called Win Value--in detail, with a historical context slanted toward the best Rockies players as ranked by career WAR in future...
Dollars and Sense Part Seven: Dollar Win Values
In this fashionably late edition of Purple Row Academy, I shift gears from Positional Payroll Distribution to an examination of the Rockies' historical Win Value data, courtesy of Fangraphs, compared to both the Rockies' marginal wins over that period and their ODPs. This session is, (for now, at...
Dollars and Sense Part Five: Marginal Payroll and Marginal Wins
In this fashionably late session of Purple Row Academy, I expand on last week's column about payroll efficiency by focusing a little more heavily on the concept of marginal wins and their relationship to marginal payroll. Marginal Payroll and Marginal Wins Though my primary reference last week,...
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