An explanation of why wOBA is not only a more effective stat than OPS, but also how it is more intuitive. Exploration of why OPS has become as popular as it has become and why we should not rely on it too much.

Links for More:
Fangraphs
wOBA – Fangraphs
Linear Weights – Fangraphs
Baseball Savant
SABR

Thank you to wOBA creator Tom Tango and Sports Info Solutions’ Mark Simon for the shout-outs on Twitter!

Love the line by @RoundTableTime for adding OBP to SLG as "solving each other's problems". Thank you for the wOBA tutorial!https://t.co/TwoLcrrScj

— Tangotiger (@tangotiger) June 19, 2019

For those of you who aren’t analytically inclined and wonder about things like “what’s wOBA?” – this video from colleague ⁦@RoundTableTime⁩ is a good primer https://t.co/5vN6mesBFB

— Mark Simon (@MarkASimonSays) June 20, 2019