Major League Baseball is easily one of the biggest sports that the use of statistics is very important. Many statistics such as, batting average, homeruns, runs batted in, and many more are used by every manager and every critic on a daily basis. The top four most highly sought after awards include the following: Most Valuable Player in each of the American League and National League, The Cy Young Award or in better terms, the most valuable pitcher in each of the American League and National League, the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award, and the Manager of the Year. These awards are all voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of American (BBWAA). Although the math behind most of the statistics in baseball is very simple, the use
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I can’t lie, there isn’t very often that I look at a batting average and wonder who the mastermind behind all of this is. Though, I have always wondered how they go about in deciding which players deserve these awards and what I discovered is rather interesting. It basically runs like a borda count for each award. For instance, in deciding who deserves most valuable player award each of the people on the BBWAA ranks their preferences in order of one through ten, with one obviously being their top preference. Each first place vote receives fourteen points. From second place through tenth place they receive points of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (BBWAA.com, 2015). As I’ve stated multiple times my favorite election process is borda count. I can’t think of anything more interesting than a points system given on multiple …show more content…
The technical definition is Wins Above Replacement but basically what that means is how valuable is one player to his team. This takes the Win Shares concept but puts more depth into it. WAR = (Batting Runs + Base Running Runs +Fielding Runs + Positional Adjustment + League Adjustment +Replacement Runs) / (Runs Per Win) (Fangraphs, 2015). Now we’re getting warmer. This is a concept that can be easily voted upon. This takes several aspects such as runs batted in, runs scored, how many runs a player allowed in the field, plus much more. It also takes into account how many runs are allowed when the player has to sit for the day and the replacement takes over. Though there are flaws within the system (as there is in any system) this is something that voters have to take into
I can’t lie, there isn’t very often that I look at a batting average and wonder who the mastermind behind all of this is. Though, I have always wondered how they go about in deciding which players deserve these awards and what I discovered is rather interesting. It basically runs like a borda count for each award. For instance, in deciding who deserves most valuable player award each of the people on the BBWAA ranks their preferences in order of one through ten, with one obviously being their top preference. Each first place vote receives fourteen points. From second place through tenth place they receive points of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (BBWAA.com, 2015). As I’ve stated multiple times my favorite election process is borda count. I can’t think of anything more interesting than a points system given on multiple …show more content…
The technical definition is Wins Above Replacement but basically what that means is how valuable is one player to his team. This takes the Win Shares concept but puts more depth into it. WAR = (Batting Runs + Base Running Runs +Fielding Runs + Positional Adjustment + League Adjustment +Replacement Runs) / (Runs Per Win) (Fangraphs, 2015). Now we’re getting warmer. This is a concept that can be easily voted upon. This takes several aspects such as runs batted in, runs scored, how many runs a player allowed in the field, plus much more. It also takes into account how many runs are allowed when the player has to sit for the day and the replacement takes over. Though there are flaws within the system (as there is in any system) this is something that voters have to take into