The point being that Manny Ramirez is worth different amounts to different teams. That said, I completely agree with your assessment that no matter who signs him, he is nowhere near worth the 20 something million he will probably get (actually, no single player is according to the affore-mentioned book, great read by the way). I suspect that with the current economic climate that this will be more true than before.

(.72* NIBB + .75 * HBP + .9 * 1B + 1.24 * 2B + 1.56 * 3B + 1.95 * HR) / (AB + NIBB + HBP + SF + SH)

For this formula, the wOBA scale is 1.15 and the league average happens to be .332, so those are the numbers you’ll want to use if you choose to use the wOBA projection provided with the Marcels and found here on FanGraphs.

If you are using the raw Marcel projections to calculate wOBA differently (say using the 2008 values found in Tango’s spreadsheet), you’ll want to calculate wRAA etc… using whatever the Scale is for that year (1.21 in ’08).

Question, are you saying that the projected 2009 marcels to use is a league average of .332 (wOBA) and a scale of 1.15. I simply used the 2008 (whcih i realize is somewhat inaccurate as you are not going to get an identical season in 2009).

For some reason I naturally used the latest one.

I will note that the wOBA used in the Marcel calculations is whatever was provided in the original 2009 Marcel projections. To calculate wRAA and wRC for Marcels I use the league average .332 that was provided and the 1.15 wOBA Scale. Obviously you’re free to calculate wOBA however you want off the projections, but we provide the projections with the same numbers as they’re submitted and try not to alter anything that’s already calculated in the projections unless otherwise advised by the authors.

http://tangotiger.net/bdb/lwts_woba_for_bdb.txt

I got that idea from the article and following comments from the wRC and wRAA article
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/wrc-and-wraa/

Although i guess when forecasting it helps to use a standard

what are your thoughts?

((wOBA – avgwOBA)/1.15)*PA)

The league average is usally like .332, at least that’s what Dave and I tend to use.

I am using that, so that I can adjust the plate appearances (which is marcels real weak spot if you ask me). So in this case, I can use eqBRR without removing the steals (i think).