foxxWAR Week 13 Update

The first update in the Week 13 foxxWAR Update is to say that this will be the last ever foxxWAR update.

Starting from the end of this sentence, foxxWAR is officially being rebranded as FWA, or Foxx Wins Added. The reason is that FWA has been living a lie. The AR in a WAR calculation means "Above Replacement." FWA has no above replacement calculation, and it never has. It is entirely a counting stat and is not based on the performance of other players. It is and has always been more of a Wins Added calculation.

And now onto the reasons you actually clicked the article link. Matt Carpenter destroyed baseballs last week to the tune of .90 FWA. That's pretty stinkin' good.

On the other side is Zephyr legend Nestor Cortes, who threw 8 no-hit innings. Once again the Phantoms should feel bad for not letting their starters finish what they started. Clearly this is a franchise being held back by their analytics department.

Some MFer named Randy nearly took home the PotW for the second week in a row, and there's a !cc sexycorbin sighting! My boy is heating up!

Yu Darvish misses the top 5 for the first time in like 200 days, but Zach Eflin ensures that we will all continue to make jokes about the Whale Sharks being good at pitching.

Dansby continues to lead in FWA for position players, but teammate Shohei Ohtani shows some cracks and falls down to number 8 for pitchers and completely off the overall FWA leaderboard. Spencer Strider now sits atop the pitcher leaderboards, vindicating the Shoebills for their draft decision. The Kaiju continue to be rude, hogging 4 of the top 10 overall spots.

We're all rooting for Corey Seager. To do what? Don't worry about it.

This is a new one. This is the projected standings for the rest of the season based on strength of schedule and home/road winning percentage. Right now the projections like PHP to pull ahead in Fun Diff, with essentially a tie between WV and WAI for the final playoff spot. This would leave the NL West with only 1 playoff participant, while Fun Diff and Crabbers would arguably have 3 apiece. Strange world we live in.

Here's another new one. This is the current Magic and Tragic numbers for each team and each playoff position (except for divisions which you can find on the league standings page.) Essentially, if you look at the far right column, the green numbers indicate the magic number for a team to clinch at least the 4th wildcard spot and a playoff berth. Red numbers indicate the tragic number, or how long until a team is eliminated.

And now a classic. Fun Diff achieved the impossible (not for them) of having every team in the division tied after 51 games played. You might also notice how spiky this chart is compared to the others. This is because nobody in Fun Diff has done good or bad enough to expand the chart. A fun little note you can see on this chart is that the most games above .500 any team in Fun Diff has reached this season is 4, which the Bovines did after the 4th game of the season. That mark hasn't been matched since.

This is the story of 4 friends. They paired off into couples, and unfortunately spent less and less time together, until they had completely lost touch.

Proof of Kaiju bullying.

KSS trying to make this a 3-team dance. What is hard to see due to the scale of the chart is that KSS is 5 games back. While it is possible they could make a run and win the division, it's actually a pretty big gap. Compare it to the gap between PEI and SHA on the IWGP chart. Those are about the same gap. The problem is that the Fighting HAMS are trying their best to break the chart.

And that's it. That's everything I got. If you're still here, why do you hate yourself so much? I'm sure there are better ways to spend your time.F