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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
By Bill James
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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:

  1. The Ratings System Used Here.
  2. Clutch Performance.
  3. Win-Based Analysis of Fielding.

Copyright © 2001 by Bill James