Custom wOBA and Linear Weights Through 2010: Baseball Databank Data Dump 2.1

by Matt Klaassen on Jan 4, 2011 1:00 PM EST on Beyond the Box Score

A rare photo of Tom Tango, seen here calculating linear weights. You know what wOBA is, right? If not, get hip to it. In short, wOBA (weighted On-Base Average) was created by Tom Tango as a way of more accurately expressing a player's offensive value (according to the linear...