Our WAR (Wins Above Replacement) is not the same as traditional MLB WAR (e.g. Baseball-Reference bWAR or FanGraphs fWAR). MLB WAR uses play-by-play data, park factors, and league replacement-level baselines that are unavailable at the D3 level. Instead, our WAR is a production-based composite score that estimates total player value by combining three role-weighted components — offense (oWar), defense, and pitching (pWar) — then adjusting for strength of schedule (SOS).
How it's calculated: Each player receives an offensive score (oWar — wOBA efficiency × plate appearance volume, with positional adjustments), a defensive score (dWAR — fielding events + error rate + position adjustment, z-score normalized so it scales with oWar), and a pitching score(pWar — ERA/FIP-based efficiency × innings pitched volume). These components are weighted by the player's role (hitter, pitcher, or two-way), summed into a raw production score, then multiplied by the team's strength of schedule factor to produce the final WAR value. Higher is better for all components except ERA+ and FIP+.