We sum up all of the contributions a player makes and convert it to team wins (about 10 runs equals a win).
Several weeks ago, for position players and pitchers, we discussed a statistic, Wins Above Replacement, that attempts to combine all of the contributions a player makes and the context he makes them in and translate it into wins in the standings.
You can look at the individual contribution of a player to any set of players, relative to anybody else's contribution to that same set of players.
This allows us to measure the total contribution of a player in a single number.
Although Bendtner generally looked off the pace, Wenger praised the contribution of a player whose Arsenal career was supposed to be over long ago.
Southgate is characteristically frank about his own "difficult experience" managing Middlesbrough, accepting he was promoted too soon, by the owner, Steve Gibson, who had hugely admired Southgate's contribution as a player, particularly his encouragement of youngsters.
It was a typical contribution from a player who loves to get involved.
He models coalitional situations, where the marginal contribution of a player to a coalition increases as the coalition becomes larger.
That adds up to a key contribution from a player once so surplus to requirements that he was allowed out on loan to Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire in 2007 and played just one game for the county in 2008.
The analysis helps teams and player agents in estimating the contribution a basketball player might make to his new team in terms of winning percentage, attendance and revenues.
