win shares Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Is the Craig Biggio the 35th Greatest Player Ever?
I have been doing some work on Negro League history and was looking at the all time rankings in the last Bill James's Historical Abstract. I saw Craig Biggio ranked as the 35th greatest player of all time using his formula of peak years, total production and other intangibles. Bill...
Using Win Shares to Guesstimate WAR
Since Rally has released his historic WAR values for the Retrosheet period (pitcher data from 1953 to current and hitter data from1955 to current) there has been many comparisons of players. The comparisons have been limited to only players that started their career after 1953/1955 due to...
Saberizing a Mac #3: Adding Win Shares & Other Data to the BDB
Based on the lack of comments in the previous post, I'm going to guess people had no trouble installing the Baseball Databank database. If you did, feel free to ask questions in the comments of that post. To follow the process I personally used to get it done, read this comment. All Saberizing a...
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