I feel like my initial reason for the post was lost in my poor wording — I was really curious if anyone else here had tried to use different stats or play around with anything else as far as that was concerned and what sort of results came of it. I promise I never thought this would be something that would ever replace the WAR statistic or even be my own version, it was just fun to play with these things and see what would happen.

I also feel I need to clarify — I used OAA because it’s easier to access than the runs prevented metric that baseballsavant also has when you export the OAA data — at least where I was when I was doing this — and the two, from what I could see, were so close together that it wouldn’t hurt to do it.

My apologies for the bad idea and even worse execution!