Baseball Graphs

Expected Win Shares Review

The Crank reviews his methodology

At the beginning of each of the past few seasons, the Baseball Crank has analyzed the “established Win Shares” level of every player on every team, to make a gross projection for each team.  I’m not a big fan of using Win Shares to project future performance, but the Crank has done something better by analyzing how each team did last year, compared to their established Win Shares levels.  This is insightful.

What’s most interesting to me are the “added” Win Shares by players not originally accounted for.  This is a way of gauging which teams have come up with the most new talent (the Braves and A’s), and which ones haven’t (the Reds and Phillies).