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.
R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (21.8)
L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (19.6)
R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (19.5)
L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (16.8)
R · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (19.8)
D · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (13.1)
C · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (21)
C · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (17.3)
C · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (16.3)
D · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (12.8)
L · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (14.5)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1954 (12.4)
L · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (19.3)
D · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (13.2)
L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1955 (11.4)
R · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (17.9)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (13.5)
C · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (13.9)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (14.5)
C · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1951 (12.5)
R · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1950 (12.4)
C · 5 seasons in the decade · best 1959 (15.9)
L · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1953 (11.8)
L · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1952 (10.1)
R · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1956 (12.6)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gordie Howe | 1953 | 21.8 |
| 2 | Gordie Howe | 1954 | 21.1 |
| 3 | Jean Beliveau | 1956 | 21 |
| 4 | Gordie Howe | 1957 | 20.6 |
| 5 | Gordie Howe | 1951 | 20.5 |
| 6 | Gordie Howe | 1956 | 20.3 |
| 7 | Gordie Howe | 1952 | 19.8 |
| 8 | Bernie Geoffrion | 1955 | 19.8 |
| 9 | Ted Lindsay | 1953 | 19.6 |
| 10 | Jacques Plante | 1959 | 19.6 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.