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.
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (21.6)
OF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (20.1)
CF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (22.7)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (18.8)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (15.6)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (16.3)
3B · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (19.6)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (15.9)
LF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (17.8)
CF · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (21.4)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (17.4)
LF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1957 (18.8)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1952 (17)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (15.2)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (15.6)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (20.5)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (15)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (15.8)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1958 (13.4)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (14.3)
3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (15.2)
3B · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (20.6)
SS · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (14)
OF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (15.8)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (17.2)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mickey Mantle | 1956 | 22.7 |
| 2 | Duke Snider | 1954 | 21.6 |
| 3 | Mickey Mantle | 1957 | 21.5 |
| 4 | Willie Mays | 1955 | 21.4 |
| 5 | Duke Snider | 1953 | 21.2 |
| 6 | Mickey Mantle | 1958 | 21.2 |
| 7 | Hank Aaron | 1959 | 21.1 |
| 8 | Willie Mays | 1954 | 21 |
| 9 | Duke Snider | 1955 | 20.8 |
| 10 | Al Rosen | 1953 | 20.6 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.