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.
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1963 (21.7)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1966 (21.9)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1964 (21.1)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1969 (20.4)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1967 (19.4)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1961 (21.3)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1969 (21.1)
3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1967 (18)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1961 (19.1)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1965 (15.6)
OF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1968 (18)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1967 (16.8)
LF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1967 (21.9)
CF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1963 (16.3)
CF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1961 (21.8)
LF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1969 (18.9)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1960 (17.3)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1964 (17.9)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1965 (16.6)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1966 (15.3)
3B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1964 (16.1)
P · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1964 (16.1)
RF · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1964 (15.2)
RF · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1961 (18.4)
1B · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1963 (16.5)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank Robinson | 1966 | 21.9 |
| 2 | Carl Yastrzemski | 1967 | 21.9 |
| 3 | Mickey Mantle | 1961 | 21.8 |
| 4 | Hank Aaron | 1963 | 21.7 |
| 5 | Norm Cash | 1961 | 21.3 |
| 6 | Willie Mays | 1964 | 21.1 |
| 7 | Willie McCovey | 1969 | 21.1 |
| 8 | Reggie Jackson | 1969 | 20.9 |
| 9 | Hank Aaron | 1967 | 20.7 |
| 10 | Frank Robinson | 1962 | 20.6 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.