from Part 2: Player Ratings and Comments

Introduction to the Player Ratings

There are three things that I need to discuss before I can explain how I arrived at the player ratings which appear throughout this section. Those three things are:

1. Runs Created.
2. Win Shares.
3. The Meaning of Statistics.

Those three things will be the next three articles, after which we will get to:

4. The Ratings System Used Here.
5. Clutch Performance.
6. Win-Based Analysis of Fielding.

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Excerpted from The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James. Copyright © 2001 by Bill James. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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