We can put Veterans Committee selections into three categories. There are those from the 19th century. Most of those were warranted because the BBWAA were not in a position to select those players because they had not seen them play. Of course, there were some errors in those categories, but

We see a number of different fallacies at play when we look at the center field group of Veterans Committee selections. The two biggest ones are the notion of the magical season and the dying embers that is batting average. Of course, we are getting ahead of ourselves. The Hall

One of the peculiarities of Hall of Fame analysis is sorting through the various concepts of value. The traditional concept has fielding and hitting as equal parts of a player’s value. So, a player that wins numerous Gold Gloves at a position is theoretically as valuable as a player that

In the positions we have seen so far, we have run across a number of prominent factors that seem to affect whether an unworthy player gets selected to be in the Hall of Fame. We see all those factors in full force with shortstops. We see players with impressive looking

We have gone through three positions already which brings us to the halfway point in terms of position players. We didn’t focus on Veterans Committee selections in the book because we were focused more on players out of the Hall of Fame than those in the Hall of Fame. The

We have already done two of these and hopefully you have read the other two first. So, instead of repeating some of the same old caveats and explanations I thought I would take a step back and talk about value. The results of this edition of the least qualified player

As some of you know, I recently released a new book called “The Hall of Fame Index Part II.” The second edition has a slightly new formula from the first one, but one of the major differences is that I did not include Veterans Committee selections. So, while we wait

Since we appear to have all of the time in the world, I thought I would indulge myself and reading audience to some Hall of Fame analysis. Essentially, the governing concept of my book “The Hall of Fame Index Part II” is not whether players should or should not be

This time around we are going to combine a couple of different features into one article. We had started a variation of the three to keep, add, and drop when I shifted gears to fun with PECOTA. So, we will combine those here. We are taking a look at three

This time around we are going to combine a couple of different features into one article. We had started a variation of the three to keep, add, and drop when I shifted gears to fun with PECOTA. So, we will combine those here. We are taking a look at three