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What’s wrong with the OPS analysis in
baseball
In recent years the OPS ratio in Baseball (On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage) has gained widespread acceptance as an analytical tool in evaluating a player’s skills. However, OPS has major flaws. Read more on the limitations of the OPS stats. ---------------------------------------------------------Judging a Season by its Cover By Jesse Goldberg-Strassler Knee-jerk reactions are a cornerstone of the sports world, perhaps best exemplified by the weekly overreaction of the college and pro football fan. Yet it is the smug sweeping expectation, antonym of the knee-jerk reaction, that reigns most supreme. Call it the ‘knee-jerk preaction,’ to coin a term, and it dooms and crowns without conscience – and often without accuracy. It was the knee-jerk preaction that declared the 2007-2008 New England Patriots as pro football’s all-time greatest team without bothering to wait for the Super Bowl – where the Pats were upset by the New York Giants. Just two years earlier, the same ‘greatest’ hyperbole was thrown around with the USC Trojans of Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush – who were then defeated in the National Championship game by the Texas Longhorns of Vince Young. This is not to ridicule all knee-jerk preactions, for many are borne out. Tiger Woods and LeBron James (and Michael Phelps as well, to a lesser extent) have lived up to everything that was predicted for them and then some. Additionally, the majority of a sport’s championship-contending teams can often be predicted accurately entering the start of a season; so can the majority of the cellar-dwelling squads. Here, for example, is a knee-jerk preaction preview of the upcoming baseball season, based on the prevailing opinion of fans and analysts: Read more. --------------------------------------------------------- |
Click here to see the PER Analysis of the All-Time Greatest Hitters in MLB History
Click here to see the PER Analysis of the All-Time Greatest Pitchers in MLB History ------------------------------------------------
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The PER Baseball methodology measure a Baseball hitter's and
pitcher's performance relative to plate appearances and innings
pitched respectively. It is a very compre-hensive analysis as it
assesses a hitter's complete performance at the plate, on the bases,
and in the field, and a pitcher's complete performance on the mound.
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