Great post. I read the earlier post about wRC+ being made for profitable purposes, and it made me sick.

These new stats aren’t made so the authors can make a profit, but is it so wrong if they did get some compensation for their time, effort and research?

Accusing sabermetricians of inventing new statistics for the sole reason of making money is beyond ignorant. Coupled with this accusation is an implication that these stats have no value and are simply a product of con artists trying to fool people (or teams) into paying money for the stats.

Complaining about advances in baseball statistics is like complaining about advances in any field. Why do we need PCs and Macs when we have Commodores? Aren’t they just the same thing, computers and keyboards? Why improve?

Why use Blackberries and iPhones when we have Zach Morris gigantic cell phones? They perform the same function (making phone calls), again, why improve?

Who needs X-Ray machines and CAT Scans when we have leeches, humorism and phrenology? And so on and so on.

Sometimes people do something because they love doing it. Not everything is tied to a desire for money.

Great post.