Would Someone Kindly Define OPS+ For Me?

[gzbach]

I stumbled on OPS all by myself in the late '70's (I called it "OBSL") and have routinely used it since then to evaluate offensive production, but I have no clue what "OPS+" is.

[shauntacular]

from here:

On-base Plus Slugging Plus (OPS+) has not gained as much widespread acceptance, but is a more informative metric than OPS. This statistic normalizes a player’s OPS — it adjusts for small variables that might affect OPS scores (e.g. park effects) and puts the statistic on an easy-to-understand scale. A 100 OPS+ is league average, and each point up or down is one percentage point above or below league average. In other words, if a player had a 90 OPS+ last season, that means their OPS was 10% below league average.

Since OPS+ adjusts for league and park effects, it’s possible to use OPS+ to compare players from different years and on different teams.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I stumbled on OPS all by myself in the late '70's (I called it "OBSL") and have routinely used it since then to evaluate offensive production, but I have no clue what "OPS+" is.

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