Career Leaderboards
There are now career leaderboards for the Standard, Advanced, Batted Ball, and Win Values stats sections for both batters and pitchers. The Win Values and Batted Ball leaderboards do not include data prior to 2002 because we just don’t have that data yet. Also, I’ve set the minimum PA and IP at 1000, but you can change it to whatever you want.
There will be Win Probability and Fielding career leaderboards eventually, but it’s going to take a bit more work.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
You so great. Man am i glad this site exists.
Since Value Wins uses UZR, and UZR is a PBP system how far back do you think Value Wins will ever go? 1987 seems a limit (but then you’d also need to use the STATS data instea of the BIS data I think). Would you use a different system (like TotalZone) prior to UZR data or just not bother?
I’d definitely be willing to use a different system like WOWY or TotalZone for seasons prior to 2002. I’d love to have it going all the way back eventually, but the further back you go, I guess the less accurate it is since the data just isn’t there.
Surprised A. Rodriguez is so far down. Makes Pujols’ position even more impressive.
Ive always thought Rogers Hornsby’s 1922 season was the greatest single season ever… Do you guys agree….???
.401 BA, 250 Hits, 141 Runs, 42 HR, 152 RBI’s, 17 SB’s, 50 K’s
Actually the 1921 season for Babe might be better , doh!!! 🙂
I’d say that 1920, 21 and 23 were better season from Ruth. If anyone finds another season with wRAA of ~120, let me know. (Oh, Bonds 2001 was 119.)
Ruth’s 207 career OPS+ is fairly absurd.
Hey David, love the new leaderboards, any chance we could have career splits by team? I think that would be cool to see.
REDRUM, you came to the wrong place to be citing BA, Runs, and RBI in support of a “greatest single season ever” argument.
How about Pedro Martinez’s 1999? 1.39 FIP in a season where 13 major leaguers had 40+ HR, 32 more major league hitters had 30+ HR (including such luminaries as Mike Lieberthal, Jeromy Burnitz, John Jaha, Dean Palmer, and Jay Bell), and another 58 guys had 20+ HR that year … and Pedro was virtually untouchable!
Or Barry Bonds and his Nintendo/PED 2001 line of .328/.515/.863 (somehow with a .268 BABIP).
Not to knock Hornsby’s 1922, I mean a .401/.459/.722 line is amazing. But defenses weren’t quite as stellar in 1922 and I think you can make a fair argument that a substantial part of Hornsby’s line is built on his .392 BABIP (which wasn’t particularly lucky for him in that era, but is more related to defenses). The same can be said for Ruth’s 1921 season (.363 BABIP). The combination of different balls, ballparks, defenses, etc. make it hard to compare across eras.
.265 BABIP for Ralph Kiner. What’s that about?
Is the wOBA (and its cousins) era-adjusted?
Yep, the weights & wOBA averages are adjusted by year.
Nice to see Berkman in the top 5. After Pujols, he has definitely been the best first baseman over the past 7 seasons. That said, Pujols numbers are crazy.