The Triumphant Return of a Thing Nobody Will Care About

In 2002, legendary baseball sabermetrician Bill James released Win Shares , his mega-calculation of how to create a single baseball stat that combines everything a player can do to create value. It was not a complete success. The baseball stat that is used these days for combining everything is called WAR, which stands for “Wins over Replacement”. Both stats attempt to summarize a player’s entire…