Friday, February 6, 2015

Using Runs Above Average To Determine The Best All Around Careers

Using the Baseball Reference Play Index, I called up all the seasons with at least 0.1 in each of the following stats: fielding runs (Rfield), base running runs (Rbaser) and batting runs (Rbat). Those are all above average (no seasons came up from 1876-1885, maybe because they don't have SB data for those years).

Then all three stats were multiplied by each other. Then I took the cube root to get the geometric mean. Each player then had their individual seasons added up. Here are the top 25

1 Willie Mays  197.0106
2 Rickey Henderson  174.8769
3 Barry Bonds  150.7554
4 Al Kaline  111.9025
5 Hank Aaron  103.7591
6 Roberto Clemente  90.52869
7 Kenny Lofton  87.87493
8 Jeff Bagwell  87.33088
9 Chase Utley  85.69787
10 Larry Walker  84.28949
11 Alex Rodriguez  82.69314
12 Albert Pujols  80.61014
13 Honus Wagner  79.79136
14 Eddie Collins  78.96287
15 Ichiro Suzuki  76.79083
16 Frank Robinson  76.45436
17 Carl Yastrzemski  73.22376
18 Jackie Robinson  72.24035
19 Ty Cobb  69.82541
20 Scott Rolen  68.84928
21 Max Carey  68.3932
22 Frankie Frisch  67.90673
23 Joe Morgan  65.48298
24 Ken Griffey2  65.37055
25 George Brett  65.01004

Click here to see the complete rankings

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