Softball wOBA

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Jun 7, 2016
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Does anybody know if there is a softball specific formula for wOBA. I believe the statistic was developed by statiticians to correlate various outcomes to run production for the MLB. Given the differences between BB and SB, I should suspect that someone in the SEC or PAC10 would have engaged a pointy head to tailor the coefficients for softball. I recognize this is a rather esoteric request, but I am betting there would be material differences in the valuation of events.
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Jun 6, 2016
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I can't vouch for the accuracy, but there are wOBA stats here. No idea what run values they assign to the individual components. If they use MLB's, they're probably off. My guess is that college softball's run environment is lower, and I also think you should probably have different weights for each Division, and maybe even each Conference, though that gets tricky with all the non-conference games.

In case you're curious, FanGraphs has the wOBA constants for each year here.
 

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