Explaining and contextualizing some updates to our flagship hitting and pitching metrics, and comparing them to others.
A discussion some of the changes we’ve made to DRC+ and DRA, an explanation of how they work, and finally a look at some notable 2021 examples of these statistics in action.
How well can a statistic compensate for the loss of more than 100 games in a season?
Many readers have asked for more detail as to how DRC+ is calculated.
DRC+ reports not only the expected level of contribution for each player, but also how uncertain the DRC system is about that estimate.
What follows is a summary of the updates and a discussion of what we’ve learned.