Many people think that Win -likeliness added (WPA) is a useful statistics. Many coverings, including our own game wrap polls, would like to refer to them. Others think that it is simply something that is conceived in 2008 by a Fangraphs trainee to at least get something on a CV and has little goal for anyone who can easily find out the important moments in the stream of a game without (increases hand, looks around to see if anyone is in accordance with).
((Not that useless statistics are not very fun. Terug in mijn jeugd, toen dinosaurussen door de planeet zwierven en de originele senatoren nog in Washington waren, hadden ze een omroeper die dingen zei als: “Dat is de eerste keer ooit dat een linkshandige slagman in Montana werd uitgevlogen naar een rechtervelder met de initialen FL met één uit in de zevende inning en een man op de eerste plaats”, een traditie van de jaren heen en een traditie, een traditie van de jaren door de jaren heen en een Tradition of the years.))
For those who do not follow WPA, and more strength for you, it apparently measures how much a certain situation – battery gets a hit, pitchers switches off – the chance that a team wins or loses. For example, the Walk-Off One-Run Homer has a higher WPA than that with a team with 8-2 loses in the seventh. I bet you couldn’t have guessed that.
In addition to a few incidents, if you dig deep enough, you can find cumulative WPA statistics for the season, which should be more meaningful and would be more meaningful if the stat itself was more meaningful.
Consider the cumulative individual WPA numbers from White Sox until the end of the Kansas City series. At the top, Kyle Teel is 0.9 – Note the highest total amounts less than one win – followed by Mike Tauchman at 0.5, Andrew Benintendi (real!) At 0.4 and Colson Montgomery at 0.3.
Honest enough, but at the bottom of players still with the team we have the useless Josh Rojas at -1.9, which you would expect, followed by Michael A. Taylor at -1.6, maybe no surprise. But then there is Lenyn Sosa (among the team leaders in Ops) at -1.3, Chase Midroth on -1.1 and Brooks Baldwin and Edgar Quero (which is second for Montgomery in Bwar under position players) bound to -1.0.
Do you still think that WPA is really useful? Well, you’re right – when We look beyond the playing field.
The real chance of winning (or deducted) is that of the only person who matters in the White SOX organization
That is of course the man who has ever received athletics as “the owner who thinks he knows everything.” Jerry Reinsdorf may not really know everything, or barely anything, but he absolutely controls everything in the organization, from top to bottom, and freak that he is, does not about to have it changed. So it’s his WPA that matters.
Surprisingly, it is perhaps terrible nowadays, but due to his 44-year term it has not been as terrible as you might have thought. When Reinsdorf and a number of other investors bought the SOX of a desperate Bill Veeck in January 1981 (and the investors somehow set up their business the only voice that would ever matter, although he owned a very small share), the White Sox had an 80-year-old record of the 196.130-99. That is slightly better than absolutely mediocre, a winning percentage of .502. Since then (via the Royals series) the record is 3,463-3,567, a winning percentage of .492.
If you now take the Record Pre -Redinsdorf, a continuous current would have yielded 3,529 victories, 66 more than topicality, which Reinsdorf tagged with -66 victories -all the loss of 1 1/2 matches per season. That is about the same as Rojas Bwar this year.
It is a reasonable argument to say that a team on the number 3 market should play better than .502 Ball, and the promo line “The Chicago White Sox -125 years of”, is not particularly inspiring, but not honest subjectivity in a statistical analysis.
What it is reasonable to enter into the analysis, however, is that real statistical WPA is not that is important to be clarified again. He may have held baseball as a youth in Flatbush, but his only use of it is nowadays as a (legal) tax avoidance, so that he can ruin his fellow citizens by not paying his fair share in the costs of running the city, the state or the country. Reinsdorf always hates players, despised fans, and more does not even seem to love the game. So we bring you:
The WPA that is important for the only person who matters in the world of White SOX – added power opportunity
When Reinsdorf, et. Already, the White Sox bought in 1981 because of the despair of Veeck and MLB’s rejection of a better offer from Eddie Debartolo for unreal reasons, the couple received the team for $ 19 million. Nowadays Forbes mentions the value of the White Sox as $ 2 billion – the only team that falls in value from 2024. Yet that is a great 100 times the purchase price!
Wow! Reinsdorf must be a genius, right?
Well, he was certainly smart to accept the action of professional sports, with both the SOX and the Bulls, even if he may have done it because of a then recent government (chased by Veeck, of all people) who gave teams an inexplicable tax situation of a double depreciation outside the bizarre, given his pentrodges as a way of life. But within that promotion? Not so much.
The values of the baseball team have been shot up since 1981. Although Forbes did not compile any values at the time, we have a comparison that shows that Reinsdorf simply grabbed the runaway horse at the tail and was hanging for a dear life when we mix metaphors.
A few months after the purchase of the White Sox, the Wigley family sold the Cubs to the stands for barely any more, $ 20.5 million including Wigley Field. Nowadays Forbes now mentions the value of the franchise $ 4.6 billion, or 224 times the purchase price for that sale. So the cubs have more than doubled the growth rate of the SOX.
No more such a genius, right?
Reinsdorf likes to blame the location for his relative financial misery (after all, he is only worth a few billion), but that is just his typical BS nagging. In 1981, Wigleyville was a much worse area than Bridgeport. It was a neighborhood of more than a few street gangs, where it was good, there were no night matches (lights arrived in 1988) because people warned you not to park far from the field if possible, which it was often not. The gentrification that brought the gay community to the region of the Ballpark was free for a few years (yes, Cubs fans think that the Wigleyville team has made it the fine area that it is today, except when drunken overgrown Frat -boys over the entire pavements along Clark Street are changed after competitions, not your cubs)
In the immediate pre-reinsdorf season of 1980, the official presence of White Sox was 1,200,365. The Cubs attracted an almost identical 1,206,776. His first year it fell to 946,651, but that was a strike year of only 104 games, and it jumped up more than 1.5 million in 1982 and two million in 1983, with just two years below that 1.2 million level since then. In 1984 the White Sox in fact became the first franchise in Chicago, which attracted two million fans in successive seasons.
Just like usual, Reinsdorf saw no more than three million in 2006, even the team signed as the defensive World Series champions – he does not mention that it only fails with a total of 42,586. The Cubs have signed more than three million 11 times this century, so the whining can be pure jealousy.
One team has been a huge success since the time of the two sales, while they have included, albeit with a number of very nice fashion from the position of the shareholders. Guess which team which is.
So there you have it, the only WPA that really matters for the only person who really matters for the White Sox has been added wealth. And although it has made him and other shareholders extremely rich, it is actually a gigantic loser.
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