Posted by pjfoster13 on 5/31/2017 3:18:00 PM (view original):
It is absolutely laughable to say that WAR is "flawed and pointless".
http://www.fangraphs.com/library/misc/war/
"WAR is not meant to be a perfectly precise indicator of a player’s contribution, but rather an estimate of their value to date. Given the imperfections of some of the available data and the assumptions made to calculate other components, WAR works best as an approximation."
When a metric has multiple ways of being calculated, it is completely subjective...and thus pointless. At least from the perspective of a concrete "stat", which most WAR fanatics treat it as.