EORT
I’d like to introduce a new stat, one I’ve created recently. Today even.
It’s called EORT (Evil Over Replacement Team). Unlike many metrics it’s a team stat, zero is the best possible score and it’s not meant to be used by observers but by players, specifically free agents attempting to pick a new team.
EORT is an incredibly useful stat. Like VORP, it is dependent on a player’s situation, such as hometown proximity and team payroll. The higher a team’s EORT, the more a player signing there will distress the original team’s fan base.
Some players have inherently more EORT value surrounding them than other players, often correlated to career win shares or years with one team. Johnny Damon was an example of a player with a lot of potential suitors with high EORT value. He ended up choosing the New York Yankees, with a season high 59.7 EORT value, one of the highest EORT signing in decades.
Wednesday was the highest EORT signing of this off-season, as Jason Schmidt of the San Francisco Giants signed a 3 year, $37 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers/Schmidt EORT wasn’t as high as Yankees/Damon, but at 39.3 far surpassed the other deals already struck this off-season.
The main factors were Schmidt’s high win shares with the Giants, the fact that Dodgers GM Ned Colletti recently worked for the Giants and the Rivalry Quotient (RQ) between the two teams. Dodgers executives are also known to disembowl puppies in front of small children and base their inner-city scholarship program on a fight-to-the-death rather than academic achievment.
One has to imagine Schmidt was aware of the Dodgers EORT, especially with the Mariners low 1.2 EORT as the next best offer. But as is often the case, Schmidt seems to have taken the highest offer over the best EORT, just as Alfonso Soriano signed the best deal with the Cubs even though they are stuck in a never-ending cycle of despair.
It’s called EORT (Evil Over Replacement Team). Unlike many metrics it’s a team stat, zero is the best possible score and it’s not meant to be used by observers but by players, specifically free agents attempting to pick a new team.
EORT is an incredibly useful stat. Like VORP, it is dependent on a player’s situation, such as hometown proximity and team payroll. The higher a team’s EORT, the more a player signing there will distress the original team’s fan base.
Some players have inherently more EORT value surrounding them than other players, often correlated to career win shares or years with one team. Johnny Damon was an example of a player with a lot of potential suitors with high EORT value. He ended up choosing the New York Yankees, with a season high 59.7 EORT value, one of the highest EORT signing in decades.
Wednesday was the highest EORT signing of this off-season, as Jason Schmidt of the San Francisco Giants signed a 3 year, $37 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers/Schmidt EORT wasn’t as high as Yankees/Damon, but at 39.3 far surpassed the other deals already struck this off-season.
The main factors were Schmidt’s high win shares with the Giants, the fact that Dodgers GM Ned Colletti recently worked for the Giants and the Rivalry Quotient (RQ) between the two teams. Dodgers executives are also known to disembowl puppies in front of small children and base their inner-city scholarship program on a fight-to-the-death rather than academic achievment.
One has to imagine Schmidt was aware of the Dodgers EORT, especially with the Mariners low 1.2 EORT as the next best offer. But as is often the case, Schmidt seems to have taken the highest offer over the best EORT, just as Alfonso Soriano signed the best deal with the Cubs even though they are stuck in a never-ending cycle of despair.
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