I've done a lot of playing with stats in the recent days and have delved pretty deeply into VORP. VORP is an estimation of a player's value above a theoretical replacement. It's a fairly simple stat in baseball, all things considered. It is much more difficult to make an assumption as to the value of a theoretical replacement. A bunch of work was done by a bunch of smart guys that use a derivation of BPM to come up a player's value over replacement. This stat is interesting because it works in conjunction with salary (A player with twice the VORP will typically make twice the salary) and also is easily converted to wins attributed to said player. For these reasons as well as my work on predicting winners against the spread I've fallen into a trap of probably overvaluing the statistic. I'm not upset by this because it leads me to doing research such as this. I'm not convinced much will be learned from this but I find it interesting.
What I decided to do is lookup the top two players according to VORP on each team and see how that duo ranks among other duos on the team in terms of minutes per game. I also threw in the duo's plus/minus.
Some standouts:
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