Positional Adjustment has always been a point of contention
about WAR. While most understand the principle of positional adjustment, I doubt
that anyone has really scrutinized the process behind the values for positional
adjustment. The established values for positional adjustment were developed
by Tom Tango using UZR data for players who switch positions over multiple
years. He took some liberty with the numbers, and adjusted the values based on
relation to offensive value and his own intuition. I have always wondered why so
few people questioned these values and accepted them as they are, so I decided
to verify these values on a slightly different methodology.
