Recently, when searching the web for articles about sabermetrics I came across one from ESPN's own Bill Simmons. The whole article can be accessed here. It gives a good amount of information on some of the various sabermetric statistics. It points out the formula for the statistic, the goal of the statistic, and the flaw of the statistic. It also gives Bill Simmons' translation and take on the statistic, but I do not find that important for this blog post. I will be posting these Sabermetric Statistics as separate blog posts.
The first sabermetric stat is OPS:
Formula: on-base percentage plus slugging percentage
Goal: Capture a player’s ability to get on base and hit for power in a simple way so he can be compared to every other player.
Flaw: Besides weighing on-base and slugging the same ("OBP [the ability of a hitter not to make outs] is far more important than SLG, since baseball is completely governed by outs"), there are times when the results just look dead wrong. Like Milton Bradley leading the AL in OPS in 2008, or Ichiro ranking 45th that season even though he had 213 hits and stole 43 of 47 bases (so clearly, he had SOME offensive value).
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