On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 11:25:44 PM UTC-5, Mordecai Brown wrote: > I take a snapshot of current year data every > other day. This Dexter Fowler WAR fascinated > me because he did hit #10 in my model earlier > so I have been watching his > progress closely all year. > > I had to modify some code to make this > report and now I can do it for any player > any year. Here is a table of partial lines > for Fowler. I wanted to show BA and OBP > because they too confirm my observation > about Fowler. I don't compute > OPS and it would be too much work for > now to recalculate rank because I forgot > to save that data off and have to write > a script to recreate it. > > Here's the daily data. Date is the snapshot > date which includes all data up to the > date before. So 0414 includes all games up > to 4/13 of this year. > > > Date|WAA|BA|OBP|NAME_TEAMID|POS > ------------------------------------------ > 0414 0.57 0.455 0.586 Dexter_Fowler_CHN BAT > 0416 0.53 0.423 0.559 Dexter_Fowler_CHN BAT > 0418 0.55 0.424 0.558 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0420 0.78 0.375 0.510 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0422 0.82 0.375 0.508 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0424 1.18 0.393 0.521 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0426 1.47 0.385 0.506 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0428 1.36 0.385 0.506 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0430 1.26 0.368 0.488 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0502 1.43 0.347 0.474 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0504 1.34 0.350 0.470 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0506 1.41 0.352 0.473 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0507 1.26 0.340 0.462 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0509 1.26 0.337 0.455 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0511 1.39 0.340 0.462 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0513 1.28 0.339 0.467 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0515 1.20 0.333 0.458 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0517 1.28 0.331 0.447 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0519 1.20 0.331 0.449 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0521 0.97 0.319 0.443 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0522 1.09 0.315 0.441 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0524 1.22 0.324 0.445 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0526 1.05 0.314 0.435 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0528 1.22 0.319 0.436 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0529 1.07 0.318 0.432 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0531 1.13 0.316 0.429 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0602 1.11 0.316 0.433 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0604 0.97 0.313 0.435 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0606 0.76 0.305 0.427 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0608 0.76 0.303 0.421 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > 0610 0.90 0.307 0.422 Dexter_Fowler_CHN CF > > He's now at 0.90 WAA down from his high > of 1.47 on 4/25. His BA/OBP was also > 0.393 /0.521 then and it's down to 0.307/0.422. > Even old school stats confirm my model. > Why WAR has him ranked so high is a mystery. > He's almost in the top ten in WAR ranking > right now. > > It would have been interesting to show > his daily WAR but I don't have that data > and can't even reproduce it as its generation > is also a mystery. > > And finally, at 0.9 Fowler is doing well. > My issue is he's not top of the league > right now and maybe shouldn't even > be in the AS game this season. He > very much helped make the Cubs so dominant > in April with his bat. I'm not dissing > on Fowler here at all. I want to show Rizzo who has a WAR=1.8 when Fowler's WAR was 3.0. Rizzo has had a very low BA but a decent OBP throughout the year. He ends up yesterday at +2.25 WAA compared to Fowler's 0.9. Who is right about this? Date|WAA|BA|OBP|NAME_TEAMID|POS ====================================== 0414 1.01 0.240 0.424 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0416 0.97 0.207 0.395 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0418 0.80 0.189 0.348 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0420 0.82 0.186 0.352 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0422 0.69 0.163 0.339 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0424 1.36 0.186 0.333 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0426 1.36 0.185 0.346 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0428 1.78 0.203 0.360 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0430 1.68 0.205 0.356 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0502 1.97 0.218 0.384 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0504 1.78 0.220 0.385 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0506 2.16 0.242 0.395 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0507 2.37 0.253 0.398 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0509 2.60 0.257 0.409 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0511 2.60 0.270 0.413 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0513 2.54 0.281 0.423 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0515 2.46 0.275 0.424 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0517 2.88 0.279 0.419 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0519 2.79 0.273 0.409 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0521 2.65 0.259 0.395 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0522 2.46 0.253 0.392 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0524 2.37 0.245 0.382 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0526 2.31 0.239 0.374 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0528 2.10 0.234 0.371 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0529 2.04 0.234 0.371 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0531 1.89 0.229 0.368 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0602 2.02 0.239 0.378 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0604 1.81 0.238 0.377 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0606 2.04 0.246 0.385 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0608 2.21 0.251 0.390 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN 0610 2.25 0.260 0.392 Anthony_Rizzo_CHN