SubscribeI’m glad to see others are taking up the cause for replacing BA with OBP that I mentioned last week. Here’s what Zach at FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball wrote recently:
Chances are, someone reading this is wondering why a league would want to complicate things and switch to OBP, or are thinking about convincing their league to do the same. Here are some simple arguments as to why a league should adopt OBP:
1. When a player reaches base, I want credit for it. It really is a simple concept. I cannot tell you how many 0-2 games it seems I had from Manny last year, where I received no credit for him reaching base in his other trips to the plate.
2. The player is helping his team by reaching first base, so why shouldn’t he help mine? Again, a very simple and straightforward idea, but some still cannot wrap their head around it.
That makes sense to me. There are several fantasy stats that are less than ideal (like wins), but BA is the one that has the most workable replacement.
I’d love to see OBP become the new fantasy standard, so hopefully people continue to bring this up.
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