Keith Woolner
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Keith Woolner, a software product designer who lives in Cary, North Carolina, is an author for Baseball Prospectus and is the creator of the runs-based statistic VORP or Value Over Replacement Player.[1] [2] VORP is acknowledged by the sabermetrics community as one of the key concepts in the analysis of a player's performance and market valuation.
Woolner has been a continuous contributor to the Baseball Prospectus annual volumes, and he was an author of six chapters of Baseball Prospectus's book Baseball Between the Numbers, Jonah Keri, Ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2006) (ISBN 0-465-00596-9).
For more on Woolner's work, see his writing at the Baseball Prospectus website. Current and historical VORP statistics are maintained on that site.
Woolner holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a masters degree in Decision Analysis from Stanford University.
[edit] References
- Rob Neyer, "The World According to VORP," ESPN.com (February 2, 2007).[3]
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