Who carried the decade. Every season is scored against its own league with VAL, so a player is measured against the peers he actually faced, never against a different era's scoring environment.
P · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (13.4)
LF · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (10.8)
CF · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (9.8)
P · 3 seasons in the decade · best 1877 (10.3)
3B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1877 (7.8)
LF · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (7.8)
1B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (7)
OF · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (7.4)
P · 3 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (13.4)
P · 2 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (12.5)
1B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (8.4)
P · 2 seasons in the decade · best 1878 (11.3)
1B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (7.3)
SS · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (7.1)
SS · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (7)
C · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1878 (6.3)
C · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (5.2)
2B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (4.9)
3B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (5.1)
RF · 3 seasons in the decade · best 1877 (5.8)
CF · 3 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (6.9)
2B · 2 seasons in the decade · best 1876 (9.7)
1B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (5.6)
2B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1879 (4.5)
3B · 4 seasons in the decade · best 1878 (5.3)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Bradley | 1876 | 13.4 |
| 2 | Tommy Bond | 1876 | 13.4 |
| 3 | Jim Devlin | 1876 | 12.5 |
| 4 | Tommy Bond | 1877 | 12.5 |
| 5 | Will White | 1878 | 11.3 |
| 6 | Charley Jones | 1879 | 10.8 |
| 7 | Tommy Bond | 1879 | 10.8 |
| 8 | Jim Devlin | 1877 | 10.5 |
| 9 | Tommy Bond | 1878 | 10.5 |
| 10 | Will White | 1879 | 10.5 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade — no rated seasons for 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, so the ranking covers the rest of the decade only.