Oddity 162WL% for teams is so small variation

[brett]

Also thought this was odd: https://www.baseball-reference.com/l...-batting.shtml

No team registered above .509 based on team offense. How does that make sense? It's similar for other seasons too and includes fielding and there are similar numbers for pitching!

Take for example the '27 Yankees. https://www.baseball-reference.com/l...-batting.shtml

The position players scored 27.7 wins above average, but the 162 game winning percentage based on the offense was only .515?

[brett]

So for teams they simply took the unweighted average of all players waaWL%. It is very easy to do it for a team. You take 81 + WAA for the team divided by 162.

[bluesky5]

So good pitching beats good hitting?

[brett]

So good pitching beats good hitting?

The real answer is that they team waaWL% is not the team value, but the average value of all the players. It would be like calculating team batting average by just averaging the batting averages of every player who comes to bat for the team in the season without regard to how many at bats each one had.

[bluesky5]

I see. I'm dumb when it comes to the stat stuff as you well know. I was just wondering if in a roundabout way it confirmed the old axiom.