re: Dylan Crews stats through 24 games (perspective)

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wRC+ is a great way to measure players against each other when the park factors have large sample sizes and everyone is playing in the same parks. No matter what way they calculate park factors for college there just aren’t enough games with the same teams playing each other in multiple parks to generate a good park factor number. Even if you go back multiple years you run into issues with new stadiums, teams playing a whole season in a minor league park instead of their home field (Bama and Texas have done so recently). That’s all to say it’s nice to look at that stat but take it with a grain of salt.

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I agree with this. I like the advanced stats a lot, but I have to believe the vast number of parks in Division 1 ball along with the vast differences in quality of play throughout the division make it difficult to calculate park factors and the like with any type of accuracy.