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Found February 05, 2013 on Fangraphs: Yardbarker Blogger Network
One of the most often cited criticisms of WAR is that replacement level is essentially an arbitrary construct, making the entire model just an act of theoretical speculation. The idea of replacement level is to essentially set a baseline for expected performance from a team that invested the abs...
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