Expected win contribitions by defensive position, normalized to 650 PA
The main reason I constructed this table was to help in translating the raw expected win contribitions of individual players into some notion of actual value (such as financial) or hall of fame worthiness. For instance, a rightfielder with typical fielding ability should be expected to outperform a shortstop by about 1.5 more offensively contributed wins.
It is also interesting to note the trends in offensive contributions by position, e.g. the worst of the last 9 years of DH's is better than all but one of the first 9 years, SS has generally improved, and P has gotten worse.
Year |
P |
C
| 1B
| 2B |
3B |
SS |
LF |
CF |
RF |
DH |
PH |
1972 |
-6.1143 |
-0.4533 |
2.0124 |
-0.5772 |
0.0614 |
-1.2108 |
1.4218 |
1.0493 |
1.0949 |
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-4.0118 |
1973 |
-6.4044 |
-0.6581 |
1.1377 |
-0.1607 |
0.2896 |
-1.8585 |
1.2146 |
0.6906 |
0.5888 |
0.7712 |
-1.0249 |
1974 |
-5.5759 |
-0.9510 |
1.2811 |
-0.6808 |
-0.1285 |
-1.5350 |
1.4344 |
0.5430 |
1.4677 |
0.0470 |
-2.6683 |
1975 |
-6.4569 |
-0.8022 |
1.4533 |
-0.1151 |
0.1117 |
-1.7509 |
0.9159 |
0.4413 |
1.2846 |
-0.0745 |
-1.1953 |
1976 |
-6.4140 |
-1.1244 |
1.0351 |
-0.8052 |
-0.0239 |
-1.2673 |
1.1298 |
0.5883 |
1.1230 |
0.2123 |
-2.2720 |
1977 |
-6.5560 |
0.0544 |
1.4688 |
-0.8024 |
0.3110 |
-2.2684 |
1.0432 |
0.4825 |
1.4240 |
0.2493 |
-2.2496 |
1978 |
-6.4219 |
-0.3196 |
1.5643 |
-0.6731 |
0.2467 |
-1.2712 |
1.2116 |
0.2501 |
1.0503 |
0.0021 |
-0.4571 |
1979 |
-7.1750 |
-0.3318 |
1.3578 |
-0.8528 |
0.3405 |
-1.6143 |
0.9645 |
0.5604 |
1.0506 |
0.2374 |
-2.4306 |
1980 |
-6.3540 |
-0.4839 |
1.2641 |
-0.9901 |
0.1295 |
-1.7262 |
1.2628 |
0.5203 |
0.7021 |
0.3060 |
-1.9096 |
1981 |
-6.7693 |
-0.7026 |
0.7901 |
-0.7324 |
0.9577 |
-1.4045 |
1.1104 |
0.9559 |
1.0964 |
-0.2825 |
-2.1180 |
1982 |
-6.6099 |
-0.7944 |
1.1404 |
-0.3957 |
0.2860 |
-1.3173 |
0.8628 |
0.3448 |
0.6379 |
0.6930 |
-3.6505 |
1983 |
-6.9304 |
-0.5555 |
0.9418 |
-0.5134 |
0.3635 |
-0.8760 |
0.9607 |
0.5443 |
0.5024 |
1.3310 |
-1.4178 |
1984 |
-6.8555 |
-0.9057 |
1.3530 |
-0.5992 |
0.2863 |
-1.4797 |
0.9377 |
0.8005 |
1.7486 |
0.4504 |
-3.2422 |
1985 |
-6.9184 |
-0.6153 |
1.5571 |
0.1827 |
-0.1404 |
-1.2725 |
0.7010 |
0.3687 |
0.5772 |
0.3543 |
-2.8078 |
1986 |
-7.2328 |
-1.0159 |
1.3787 |
-0.8292 |
0.5083 |
-0.9426 |
0.6369 |
0.4445 |
0.7554 |
0.5635 |
-1.8364 |
1987 |
-7.2670 |
-1.5229 |
2.0130 |
-0.1454 |
0.3080 |
-0.9997 |
0.5803 |
0.6402 |
0.7370 |
0.2318 |
-2.3158 |
1988 |
-7.6966 |
-0.9884 |
1.1441 |
-0.8068 |
0.0086 |
-0.7415 |
0.9298 |
0.4068 |
0.9307 |
1.0961 |
-3.6983 |
1989 |
-6.5490 |
-1.1218 |
1.9784 |
0.3195 |
-0.3575 |
-1.2333 |
1.2173 |
0.0822 |
0.6800 |
-0.1341 |
-3.6100 |
1990 |
-7.3495 |
-0.5709 |
1.4221 |
-0.4374 |
0.0244 |
-0.9479 |
1.0038 |
0.8565 |
0.4206 |
-0.1934 |
-2.9578 |
1991 |
-7.1046 |
-1.2272 |
0.9389 |
0.3777 |
0.0882 |
-0.8771 |
0.6237 |
0.4848 |
0.8775 |
0.6214 |
-2.9813 |
1992 |
-6.8513 |
-1.2422 |
1.2694 |
-0.0957 |
0.2645 |
-1.4196 |
0.7401 |
0.5893 |
0.1777 |
0.6521 |
-3.3126 |
1993 |
-7.2310 |
-0.5751 |
1.3245 |
-0.6837 |
0.0921 |
-0.9185 |
0.9431 |
0.2992 |
0.5741 |
-0.1892 |
-3.3686 |
1994 |
-8.0677 |
-0.9583 |
1.8162 |
-0.4553 |
-0.1689 |
-1.3714 |
0.6556 |
0.1557 |
0.8973 |
1.0740 |
-1.5526 |
1995 |
-7.5055 |
-0.6166 |
1.5363 |
-0.4289 |
-0.2170 |
-1.4011 |
0.6711 |
-0.1147 |
0.9654 |
1.1439 |
-1.9189 |
1996 |
-7.8188 |
-1.0921 |
1.2033 |
-1.0699 |
0.1039 |
-1.2063 |
1.1335 |
0.0204 |
0.7819 |
1.1119 |
-3.1067 |
1997 |
-8.1987 |
-0.7502 |
1.9314 |
-0.6865 |
0.2793 |
-1.2170 |
0.1399 |
0.0103 |
1.5423 |
0.7146 |
-4.0394 |
1998 |
-7.8409 |
-1.2541 |
1.6435 |
-0.1580 |
0.1743 |
-1.1800 |
0.7237 |
-0.1182 |
0.9568 |
1.1885 |
-3.5596 |
1999 |
-7.6927 |
-1.1786 |
1.2855 |
-0.0346 |
-0.2128 |
-0.8607 |
0.7286 |
0.0106 |
1.0245 |
0.9845 |
-3.4598 |
2000 |
-8.3764 |
-0.8845 |
1.7893 |
-0.7105 |
-0.6502 |
-0.7966 |
0.6427 |
0.2130 |
0.8009 |
0.8712 |
-2.3779 |
2001 |
-8.0638 |
-1.3726 |
1.6084 |
-0.3655 |
-0.1542 |
-0.7266 |
1.0341 |
0.1127 |
1.1951 |
0.1804 |
-3.0086 |
2002 |
-8.1170 |
-1.5601 |
1.6938 |
-0.5243 |
0.0674 |
-0.4479 |
0.8780 |
0.1194 |
1.0192 |
0.6601 |
-3.7558 |