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.
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (24.9)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1980 (23.7)
R · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1986 (21.9)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (21.5)
L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (22.3)
C · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (20.8)
R · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (24.2)
C · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1988 (21.8)
L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (18.3)
R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (18.9)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (18.1)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (19.6)
D · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1986 (23.3)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1982 (18.2)
D · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (19)
C · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (22.4)
R · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1983 (19.1)
R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1981 (19)
C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1980 (15.3)
R · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (18.9)
R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1984 (16.7)
L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1985 (18.5)
R · 9 seasons in the decade · best 1987 (19.6)
D · 10 seasons in the decade · best 1986 (15.6)
R · 8 seasons in the decade · best 1989 (21.1)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wayne Gretzky | 1982 | 24.9 |
| 2 | Wayne Gretzky | 1985 | 24.9 |
| 3 | Wayne Gretzky | 1983 | 24.5 |
| 4 | Mike Bossy | 1982 | 24.2 |
| 5 | Wayne Gretzky | 1987 | 24.2 |
| 6 | Wayne Gretzky | 1986 | 24.1 |
| 7 | Marcel Dionne | 1980 | 23.7 |
| 8 | Bernie Nicholls | 1989 | 23.7 |
| 9 | Steve Yzerman | 1989 | 23.6 |
| 10 | Paul Coffey | 1986 | 23.3 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.