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.
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1886 (17.1)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1889 (17.5)
1B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1886 (16.3)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1889 (15.7)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (15.5)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1888 (15.4)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1885 (16)
2B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1886 (15.3)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1886 (11.6)
P · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (15.3)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1886 (12.1)
1B · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1888 (17.1)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (11.9)
CF · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1887 (15.3)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (12.2)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1887 (11.1)
P · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1883 (12.5)
2B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (17.2)
OF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (13.6)
P · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1883 (14.4)
3B · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1889 (12.7)
P · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1883 (13)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1883 (11.9)
2B · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1884 (14.9)
SS · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1886 (11.3)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tip O'Neill | 1887 | 18.8 |
| 2 | Harry Stovey | 1889 | 17.5 |
| 3 | Fred Dunlap | 1884 | 17.2 |
| 4 | Cap Anson | 1886 | 17.1 |
| 5 | John Reilly | 1888 | 17.1 |
| 6 | Jimmy Ryan | 1888 | 16.7 |
| 7 | Dan Brouthers | 1886 | 16.3 |
| 8 | Cap Anson | 1888 | 16.2 |
| 9 | Mickey Welch | 1885 | 16 |
| 10 | Cap Anson | 1884 | 15.9 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.