Baseball Graphs is dedicated to the better use and communication of baseball statistics. Below, you'll find excerpts from, and links to, some of the best baseball writers on the Internet. Follow the links above to read my own intermittent attempts at wisdom (the Baseball Graphs blog), and the heart of this site, historical graphs of every season dating back to 1900.
There are also two special sections you might want to check out. One is the graphical review of the 2003 season, which informed our work at The Hardball Times. The other is the Batted Balls Library, which includes a unique look at batters and pitchers from 2002 through 2005.
I’ve posted an article over at the Hardball Times, called Win Shares for MVP, that makes the best case I can make for the usefulness of Win Shares.
Win Shares is a retrospective, value-based statistic, which makes it the right stat for defining “Valuable.” There’s also a pretty good discussion of the article over at Baseball Primer.