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woburn · 06-06-2002, 10:34 AM

[qb] <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by OldGiants:
Forcing 'win shares' to equal the team's win total can never be a valid determination of a player's value. It favors players on better teams far too much, even with the tripling idea.
QB]<hr /></blockquote>I don't believe that's true. There's a study in the book which matches a pitcher on a good team with a pitcher on a bad team, where their performance was very similar. It showed that the Win Shares were also very similar.

06-06-2002, 10:34 AM	#29 (permalink)
woburn Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 191 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	[qb] </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by OldGiants: Forcing 'win shares' to equal the team's win total can never be a valid determination of a player's value. It favors players on better teams far too much, even with the tripling idea. QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I don't believe that's true. There's a study in the book which matches a pitcher on a good team with a pitcher on a bad team, where their performance was very similar. It showed that the Win Shares were also very similar.