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: Runs Created. Win Shares. The Meaning of Statistics. Those three things will be the next three articles, after which we will get to: The Ratings System Used Here. Clutch Performance. Win-Based Analysis of Fielding. Copyright © 2001 by Bill James Excerpted from The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
