At the moment, we’ve made some adjustments to Wins Above Alternative that completes the transfer from UZR to the total suite of Statcast equal metrics in FanGraphs WAR. This course of started in 2022, after we changed UZR’s vary element with Statcast’s Fielding Runs Prevented, which is Outs Above Common (OAA) transformed to runs above common. UZR will proceed to be calculated on FanGraphs via the top of the 2025 season. At the moment’s adjustments are retroactive to the 2016 season.
Right here is the whole listing of what’s included on this replace:
You may learn extra in regards to the Statcast metrics right here:
We’ve added XBR (Statcast’s baserunning metric) to the Superior part of our leaderboards. Now we have additionally added a brand new Statcast fielding part to our leaderboards, which embody the entire extra metrics which were added to WAR.
There are a handful of notable adjustments in WAR from the replace, however virtually all gamers’ WAR totals are inside 1 WAR of their earlier totals from 2016-2023. We’ve up to date Legacy WAR (L-WAR) on the leaderboards in the event you’d prefer to see all of the adjustments.
Listed below are the gamers whose WAR elevated greater than 1 WAR:
And listed below are the gamers whose WAR decreased greater than 1 WAR:
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