Read the site and fanposts daily, but haven't posted before. I was inspired by Cards fan in Chitown's recent post regarding OAR to share a statistic of my own. As we all know, OPS is an excellent statistic, but certainly has flaws. In an effort to more equally weight the components of OPS, I came up with BPA: Bases per Plate Appearance. The name is pretty self explanatory.

I think, with my most recent incarnation, that I've managed properly weight the values of your "normal" stats (H, 2B, BB, etc.), while taking into account SB's, SF's, HBP's, etc as well. Using a league average OBP (adjusted for each player's PA's), I've valued all hits greater than walks, etc based on the greater likelihood additional players will advance due to the live ball.

Pillory me if you must, but any feedback would be highly usefull and appreciated.

Top 100 (Note: My dataset includes all players with at least 50 PA's, so keep that in mind):