Sabermetrics - The rabbit hole confluence of baseball and math.
A well known measure to emerge from this nerdfest is the players' WAR rating or 'Wins Above Replacement'. What this calculates is how much added value a player gives to their team - how many wins does the team. In other words, if player A is injured and is replaced by player B, how many wins would the team not have because player A is better than player B?
I'm curious if corporate HR departments have distilled employee value in similar, objective statistical ways.
Comments