Talk:Win shares
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate, you can edit the article. You can discuss the Project at its talk page. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary at in the comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. |
 |
Win shares is within the scope of WikiProject Baseball, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of baseball and baseball-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion. | ||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. | ||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. | ||
|
Assessment comments
This article has not been rated for quality and/or importance yet. Please rate the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. |
|||
I made some fairly heavy edits... here is some justification for some of the stuff I removed:
"The main innovation, however, is that a "win share" represents exactly one-third of a team win."
This isn't an innovation, per se... the innovation is that the team win is the absolute base of the calculations. Win shares starts with the win, not the run scored or prevented.
"One criticism of this metric is that it does not allow for the possibility of a team winning fewer or more games than the sum of its players' contributions suggests,"
It's not that the system doesn't allow for the possibility, it's that the credit might be incorrectly assigned.
"This blurs the line between whether win shares are intended to represent player value or player ability"
It doesn't blur the line, the system is specifically designed to reward value and not ability.
.. The organization of this article would be significantly improved if it were broken into two sections, one in which the Win Shares statistic is described and another in which the criticisms (with some specific citations) were collected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.92.71 (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
