A better guide to surplus value

Oct 11 2018 by South Side Sox

 

Adjusting for a realistic cost of WAR yields some sobering results for the White Sox

Anyone who knows me has to deal with the fact that I think surplus value (SV) is a pretty clever concept, combining player performance (WAR) with a player’s salary to determine how good a value that player is to a team.

Yeah, I can see it getting a little unseemly, like the nonsense this summer about the Chicago White Sox gaming Eloy Jiménez’s service time to squeeze another season of control...

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