Acuna to AAA

[Horsehide Harry]

I'm curious if your assertions are unique to power. Wouldn't teams below league average in defense also have low probabilities of success. Same with teams below league average in OBP, in pitching, etc.

Might be. I haven't look at that.

I started looking at power simply because I had a friend who kept telling me that the way to build a winning team was to load up on singles/doubles hitters and base stealers primarily because he was in love with the early 80's Cardinals. I thought with the disappearance of hard turf, the phasing out of super big parks and the introduction of all the new parks, the "chicks dig the long ball" mentality, that the game had swung much further toward favoring the HR over the SB.

 

[nsacpi]

Might be. I haven't look at that.

I started looking at power simply because I had a friend who kept telling me that the way to build a winning team was to load up on singles/doubles hitters and base stealers primarily because he was in love with the early 80's Cardinals. I thought with the disappearance of hard turf, the phasing out of super big parks and the introduction of all the new parks, the "chicks dig the long ball" mentality, that the game had swung much further toward favoring the HR over the SB.

power definitely improves a team's chances for success...but i'm not sure it is unique ...other components probably have as strong a correlation

 

[Enscheff]

power definitely improves a team's chances for success...but i'm not sure it is unique ...other components probably have as strong a correlation

The correlation other aspects of the game have in winning games is reflected in a players WAR. That's the whole point of the stat. Add up the WAR, adjust for luck in 1 run games, and you generally get a team's win total.

No sense in trying to reinvent the wheel here.