WAR for public goods, or why we need more advanced metrics in crypto

The article proposes adapting baseball's Wins Above Replacement (WAR) metric to measure the value of ecosystem grants and incentive programs in decentralized networks like Ethereum and its Layer 2s. It offers strawman "protocol WAR" and open source software WAR formulas, which score projects by active user days or active developer days against a replacement baseline. The author's group, OSO, describes the idea as a thought experiment it is seriously considering while developing metrics for measuring impact. The article also suggests tying future funding to these scores, though it treats the formulas as starting points needing normalization.