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Originally Posted by packs
Isn't your WAR based on your performance alone? I'm not understanding how another player having a good year would negatively affect your own WAR.
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It's not just "another" player. It's all the other players in that particular season. All your immediate contemporaries. It's basically being judged on a curve, according to everybody else's performance. Stats were generally inflated across much of the league during most of his best years, therefore his stats don't look quite as impressive in the context of his times, therefore he gets dinged on his overall WIN Shares by the algorithm.
If Jeff Kent puts up the same stat line as a 2nd baseman in 1978 as he did in 1998, I'd guess he'd have accumulated at least 3 more Win Shares that season.
I'm not saying he would have, I'm saying "if he did".
In the end, I guess it doesn't really mean anything. Just more chatter in the year 2023.
