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FanPost Friday: Create your own advanced stat!

To boldly stat where no nerd has stat’d before

2019 Boston Red Sox Spring Training
This post is about stats not sign stealing I swear
Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Welcome to another glorious FanPost Friday! We’ve got a doozy for those among us who are into numbers and are feeling creative. (Internet goes silent, Matthew coughs)......No one? How about just a way to quantify how many sunflower seeds a player eats during a game? Or how about WAR-DOOPIE? Did anyone ever actually work out how to calculate that?

Prompt: Create your own advanced baseball stat

Kansas City Royals v Seattle Mariners
This comes up when you search “seattle mariners analyst” in the photo tool
Photo by Lindsey Wasson/Getty Images

Submit your answer as a FanPost and show your work, of course. We will front page the best posts over the weekend. Don’t feel like making a whole post? Drop your idea in the comments and let the community workshop it. Either way, let’s talk numbers!