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.
Player of the decade
Ozzie NewsomeBest single season
Kellen Winslow · 1981Evidence
2,248 player-seasons
TE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (28.8)
WR · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (25.3)
WR · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (23.2)
RB · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (23.9)
TE · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1981 (31.7)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (25.5)
RB · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (26.9)
WR · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (18.6)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (20.9)
RB · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1989 (21.9)
QB · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (24.8)
RB · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (23.9)
WR · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (26.1)
QB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (20.6)
TE · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1986 (24.3)
RB · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1988 (16)
WR · 5 seasons in the decade · best 1989 (27.9)
RB · 6 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (21.2)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (20.4)
TE · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1989 (25.6)
WR · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1986 (17.2)
TE · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (18.6)
RB · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1986 (18)
RB · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1981 (22.6)
WR · 7 seasons in the decade · best 1988 (24.7)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kellen Winslow | 1981 | 31.7 |
| 2 | Ozzie Newsome | 1983 | 28.8 |
| 3 | Billy Sims | 1980 | 28.7 |
| 4 | Jerry Rice | 1989 | 27.9 |
| 5 | Sterling Sharpe | 1989 | 27.7 |
| 6 | Kellen Winslow | 1983 | 27.5 |
| 7 | Jerry Rice | 1986 | 27.2 |
| 8 | Eric Dickerson | 1983 | 26.9 |
| 9 | Eric Dickerson | 1988 | 26.6 |
| 10 | Dalton Hilliard | 1989 | 26.6 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.