the.com/player value
the price tag on talent, minus the marketing.
means a measure of how much a player actually contributes to winning, relative to what they'd cost to replace.
from born in baseball's sabermetrics revolution of the 1980s-2000s, when stats nerds got tired of scouts saying a guy just looks like a ballplayer, and built math to prove or disprove it.
replacement levelthe baseline is a scrub, not average
war statwins above replacement, baseball's favorite export
contract mathteams pay per projected win, roughly
spreads sportssoccer and basketball now steal the formula