wOBA leaders

[gp956]

Aubrey Huff........... 0.386
Buster Posey.......... 0.377
Andres Torres........ 0.374
Pat Burrell............. 0.348

NL league average (qualified players only) 0.347


Jose Guillen........... 0.325
Mike Fontenot........ 0.322
Edgar Renteria....... 0.319
Juan Uribe............. 0.318
Pablo Sandoval....... 0.318
Cody Ross.............. 0.317
Freddy Sanchez...... 0.314
Travis Ishikawa...... 0.307
Eli Whiteside.......... 0.307
Aaron Rowand........ 0.293
Nate Schierholtz..... 0.292
Bengie Molina......... 0.283
Mark DeRosa.......... 0.242

 

[tzill]

I'm surprised how low the wOBAs are for Panda and Franchez, but I guess I shouldn't be considering their lack of walks.

 

[gp956]

I'm surprised how low the wOBAs are for Panda and Franchez, but I guess I shouldn't be considering their lack of walks.

Mostly I think lack of walks and power. Interestingly, Sanchez was projected at around 0.313, but panda is well off his projection: 0.382.


.....Lineup................BA.........OBP......SLG......wOBA
1 CF Aaron Rowand .........0.270......0.336.....0.430....0.331
2 2B Freddy Sanchez........0.281......0.319.....0.407....0.313
3 3B Pablo Sandoval........0.327......0.382.....0.535....0.382
4 C Bengie Molina..........0.269......0.300.....0.429....0.308
5 1B Aubrey Huff...........0.267......0.329.....0.443....0.328
6 LF Mark DeRosa.......... 0.264......0.341.....0.435....0.338
7 RF Nate Schierholtz..... 0.281......0.327.....0.426....0.323
8 SS Edgar Renteria....... 0.271......0.327.....0.385....0.312

 

[sfsportsfan]

i feel like a loser asking this, but whats wOBA?

 

[gp956]

i feel like a loser asking this, but whats wOBA?

What a loser......

It's a weighted on base average. It's designed to correlate with how many runs a player actually produces with his offensive performance. The designers of the stat looked at historical league averages to see how many runs scored on average due to various "events".

So essentially it is: wOBA = ((0.72 x NIBB) + (0.75 x HBP) + (0.90 x 1B) + (0.92 x RBOE) + (1.24 x 2B) + (1.56 x 3B) + (1.95 x HR) / PA

NIBB = non-intentional base on balls
RBOE = reached base on error
HPB = hit by pitch
1B, 2B, 3B, HR = single, double, triple. homerun

The weights assigned to each event will change depending on what era you're looking at. So different sites will have different weights.

 

[sfsportsfan]

the entire time i was reading that formula i was thinkin to myself "hoooooly fuck"

 

[gp956]

the entire time i was reading that formula i was thinkin to myself "hoooooly fuck"

It's pretty straightforward once you have all the data. wOBA misses the little things though, like moving runners over, hit and run ability, and the formula above leaves out steals/caught stealing - I think fangraphs wOBA includes the latter. So, while it's much better than OPS, OPS+, it's still not the perfect stat.

 

[tzill]

i feel like a loser asking this, but whats wOBA?