<![CDATA[WAR in basketball — why the baseball transplant works better than people think]]>Basketball WAR metrics (VORP, WS/48, RAPTOR) have the same conceptual framework as baseball WAR: how many wins does this player add versus a replacement-level player? The key is defining replacement level correctly. In basketball that's the 8th man in the rotation. Most calculations use this correctly now.

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