Wikipedia: Baseball statistics/OPS

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OPS is simply defined by the sum of /OBP? and /SLG?.

OPS is simply defined by the sum of On-base percentage and Slugging percentage.

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* On a team-by-team basis, correlates well (and positively!) with the number of wins a team achieves.

* Correlates well (and positively!), on a team-by-team basis, with the number of wins a team achieves.

OPS is simply defined by the sum of On-base percentage and Slugging percentage.

This statistic is very popular in measuring the offensive worth of a player since it

Is relatively easy to calculate
Correlates well (and positively!), on a team-by-team basis, with the number of wins a team achieves.

Originally solely the province of statisticians, the stat is lately finding acceptance in mainstream baseball coverage and analysis.