Here at Oliver Fox Sports Analytics Incorporated, we like to be on the cutting edge of statistical analysis and research. That’s why, when charged with ranking the top 11 players in the upcoming 2025 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays, we’ve decided to debut our new, game-changing model: Vibes-based Impact Baseball Expectation Score (VIBES).
Here’s how it works: we distill down the sum of all available tracking data for individual players and score it against the current socio-cultural expectation for how that player is expected to perform, and then divide that by the square root of how important they are to the baseball ecosystem
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