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To avoid spamming the general blog page with the Player Value posts for each season/team, this blog page will serve as a separate listing of all of the Player Value posts for each season/team. These posts will be less detailed, mainly just listing out the top players each season and including the necessary files.
Well, by "all-time", I really mean from 1912-2021, as that is currently the span of years that I have the data for. As the headline suggests, these rankings are according to my Player Value metric as of the date listed above. You can read my initial Player Value post here and its addendum here. Since then I have used Retrosheet play by play data to better fine tune the run value weights of the various events, but haven't been able to write up a post detailing them yet. Rather than listing them out again in this post, you can view them towards the top of my latest Hall of Fame post here. When we're discussing positional rankings, there's a couple of ways we can decide what a player's primary position was. One approach is to do it based on games played, which is the easiest but results in guys like Pete Rose and Ernie Banks being first basemen. I instead elected to take the approach of using the position that a player accumulated the most Player Value at. This way, Rose is a left fielder and Banks is a shortstop. I still list out their main position by games played in the data files below, but that's not what I went off of. There's also the matter of if we should take a player's total Player Value for their career and then just group them by their main position, or should we only use the Player Value that a player accumulated at this specific position. This choice is a little trickier, so I've gone ahead and listed out the top rankings for each option. I've already detailed the more specific leftfield, centerfield, and rightfield rankings. You may be wondering how guys across the outfield positions stack up, so this post serves that purpose. I'll also include guys that provided a lot of value at different OF positions, but that primarily may not have been a specific OF position, like Stan Musial. He was more of 1B than a LF or RF, but if we combine his LF and RF value and games we see that he was more of an OF than a 1B. Given that I've already explained the LF, CF, and RF rankings, this post will almost solely by lists and graphs - no explanations. Since there are more OF guys than specific LF/CF/RF guys, I will do top 50 lists instead. So, without further adieu: Top 50 Outfielders From 1912-2021, Based On Total Player Value At All Positions
Top 50 Outfielders From 1912-2021, Based On Total Player Value As An Outfielder
Top 50 Outfielders From 1912-2021, Based On Batting Value At All Positions
Top 50 Outfielders From 1912-2021, Based On Fielding Value At All Positions
Top 25 Outfielders From 1912-2021, Based On Baserunning Value At All Positions
From the span of 1912-2021, I have just 1,798 players that contributed most of their value as outfielders. There are 8,646 total position players in this span. If you go based off of games played, however, there are 3,163 outfielders in this span. This makes sense, as any outfielders that were negative for their careers would have been assigned to a different position, based on value. So to be in the top 1%, a player would have to be among the top 31-32 outfielders during this span. To be in the top 1.18% (the general Hall of Fame mark), a player would have to be among the top 37-38 outfielders during this span. If we look at the top 37 outfielders according to Player Value, 25 of them are in Cooperstown. Of the 3,163 outfielders in my dataset based off of games played, 61 are in the Hall of Fame. That's 1.93%, larger than the "top 1%" idea that many people think of the Hall of Fame as, as well as the top 1.18% that the Hall actually operates at. That 61 does include guys that may have been mainly outfielders during their player careers, but were inducted for other reasons, such as Dick Williams, Whitey Herzog, and Billy Southworth as managers, Clark Griffith as a pioneer, or Jocko Conlan as an umpire. Below you can graphically see how all of our outfielders compare in terms of Player Value, along with the black line denoting which players provided positive value, the gold line denoting the Hall of Fame mark, and the blue dots denoting the actual Hall of Fame members: Below you can graphically see how the top 25 outfielders compare in terms of Player Value: Below you can graphically see how the top 26-50 outfielders compare in terms of Player Value: Below is the dataset of primarily outfielders from 1912-2021, as determined by which position the player provided the most Player Value at. There are 1,798 players in this dataset.
Below is the dataset of primarily outfielders from 1912-2021, as determined by which position the player played the most games at. There are 3,163 players in this dataset.
Thanks for checking out this outfield rankings post. I plan to update it whenever I develop new Player Value iterations, and hopefully we'll get closer and closer to some rankings that we can more firmly support.
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