Win Probability Update

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THT Fantasy Focus found this 10/14/2008 on www.fangraphs.com [flag]
Good news! Win Probability and Run Expectancy stats have all been park adjusted for 2008. It looks like the run environment during the season was set a little too high, so you’ll notice batter stats are slightly higher, while pitcher stats are a bit lower. Other than that, not much ... [link]

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Season review: catchers
Published 10/14/2008 by Paul Singman at THT Fantasy Focus
... there mostly to show how many catchers qualified for the average OPS. The OPS category is self-explanatory it is the average OPS of qualified catchers that year. That leaves the % + WPA/LI category, which refers to the percentage of catchers with a positive WPA/LI. (A zero WPA/LI represents a league-average hitter, so % + WPA/LI shows the percent of catchers who were above average at the plate.) I was a bit hesitant to use WPA/LI numbers, at least for this year, because of the seemingly radical park factor adjustments done by Dave Appleman of Fangraphs on the ...

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