In it, I argued that there wasn't much of a problem to using OPS if it improved communication because the gains from it to other, better stats (like wOBA) were so meager. Fortunately, in the time since, FanGraphs has popularized wOBA so much that I feel pretty comfortable just reporting it and ignoring OPS altogether. And in many cases, I've even moved on to using wRC+ to get the advantages of park controls and run environment-neutrality. OPS just isn't necessary anymore.
In any case, I thought it would be fun to reproduce that article here. Here's the most relevant graph. The rest appears below the jump.
