Sentence examples for replacement war from inspiring English sources

I'm going to use Wins Above Replacement (WAR).

Traditional statistics underscore his All-Star credentials, but so does the advanced metric wins above replacement (WAR), which measures how many victories a player contributes relative to someone called up from the minors.

He spent the last two seasons as possibly the most overpaid player in baseball, earning more than $47 million and producing a combined Wins Above Replacement (WAR) of 0.1.

James's method had been preceded by Palmer's Total Player Rating and would be succeeded by various versions of Wins Above Replacement (WAR), which was predicated on the identification of the value of a theoretical "replacement player" (a player readily available, whether from a team's bench or its farm system).

Among New York's four highest-paid position players, only Teixeira ranks among the team's top four nonpitchers in Wins Above Replacement (WAR), a statistic that measures how many victories a player contributes compared with a substitute from the bench or the minors.

This method was preceded by Palmer's total player rating (TPR) and succeeded by various versions of wins above replacement (WAR), which was predicated on the identification of the value of a theoretical "replacement player" (a player readily available, whether from a team's bench or from its farm system).

This number typically known as wins above replacement or WAR endeavors to tell us how many wins a player was worth to his term over replacement talent.

Comparing players at different positions can be difficult, but for major leaguers, we use a statistic called wins above replacement, or WAR, that attempts to merge a player's batting, fielding, base running and position.

In comparing next year's Phillies staff with the likes of the 1976 Mets (Tom Seaver, Jon Matlack, Jerry Koosman, and Mickey Lolich) or the 2004 Red Sox (Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, Tim Wakefield) and others, the stat-comfy Forman likes to employ the Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, formula.

Some of DOD's request, however, including the $1 billion for training in the Iraqi Security Forces Fund (ISFF), the $2 billion to offset fuel increases, and the $1.7 billion for reset or replacement of war-worn equipment is less clearly related to the new deployments, and some could argue should be considered as part of DOD's regular FY2011 appropriation request.

The replacement of Civil War mythology needs to extend to the entire South.