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The Short-Form Method, 14
Introduction to the Long Method, 16
Dividing Win Shares between Offense and Defense, 17
Dividing Offensive Win Shares among a Team's Hitters, 20
Dividing Win Shares between Pitchers and Fielders, 26
Assiging Win Shares to Individual Pitchers, 33
Assigning Win Shares to Defensive Positions, 42
Determining Claim Percentages for a Team's Catchers, 43
Claim Percentages for a Team's First Basemen, 49
Claim Percentages for a Team's Second Basemen, 55
Claim Percentages for a Team's Third Basemen, 57
Claim Percentages for a Team's Shortstops, 60
Claim Percentages for a Team's Outfield, 64
Converting the Claim Percentages into Fielding Win Shares, 67
Assigning Win Shares to Individual Fielders, 70
Making Integers, 77
Figureing Excess Batters Faced by LHP, 78
Estimated Un-Assisted Putouts at First Base (Buckner and Garvey), 80
Arm Ratings for First Basemen, 83
Park Factors, 86
How We Figure Runs Created, 90
How We Figure Component ERA, 98
What in the Hell is the Team/League Putout Percentage?, 100
The Baseball Player as an Iceberg, 106
Win Shares and Replacement Level, 107
The Last Hard Fact, 110
Adjusted range Factors, 111
Ashburn and Hamner, 113
Comparison of Short-Form and Actual Win Shares, 116
Why 52?, 117
Independent Putouts by Catchers, 122
Scrambled Second Basemen, 124
Mazeroski and Randolph, 126
Extreme Teams, 128
Marvelous, 133
Gold Glovers, 134
Win Shares Defensive Rankings Expressed as Letter Grades, 137
Estimated Defensive Innings, 155
Nap Lojoie's Defense, 161
Second Base Putouts, 167
Good Teams, Bad Teams, 168
Win Shares for Pitchers with Identical Won-Lost Records, 173
Why Did the Defensive Spectrum Jump?, 182
Fuzzy Stats, 184
Roy Smalley, 185
The Snider/Mays Dilemma, 188
Klein and Yastrzemski, 190
Tresh and Delehanty, 192
Steve and Milt versus the Dodger Dons, 193
Biases in MVP Votins, 194
The Greatest Offense/Defense Seasons, 197
Aging Patterns Among Great Players, 199
Defensive Contexts for Other Players, 202
Balanced Teams and Front-Line Talent, 205
Dee Aitch, 211
Will Clark, 213
Comparable Pitchers on Good Teams and on Bad Teams, 214
Are Rookies of the Year Slippling?, 218
Left-Handed Pitching and Other Things that Screw Up Fielding Statistics, 219
Ed Yost (Or, "Why, yes I DID write the same thing in the other book."),226
Edwin Peter, 228
Putouts By Third Basemen, 228
Team Star Power, 231
Using Win Shares for Better Team Age Analysis, 232
Old Gold Gloves, 234
Win Shares and MVP Voting, 237
Rookies Redux, 244
Flukes, 254
Two Great Pitchers, 257
Lefe Moves On, Or At Least That's the Rumor, 259
Win Shares by Team, 262
Win Shares by Decade, 483
Supplementary Register, 545
Leader Boards, 593
All-Time Leaders, 594
Single Season Leaders, 623
Franchise Leaders, 626
Miscellaneous References, 641
Career Summaries
Batting/Fielding/Pitching Breakdowns for Top 300 Players, 656
Batting Win Shares Year-by-Year. 659
Year of Birth Charts for Selected Players, 661
Batting Leaders by League and Season, 667
Pitching Leaders by League and Season, 672
Defensive Win Shares Leaders by League and Season, 677
Park Run and Home Run Factors - 2001, 707
Offensive/Defensive Team Splits, 2000-2001, 710
Win Shares Breakdown by Team -2001, 710
Fielding Wins Allocation Chart, 2001, 711
Team Worksheets for Pitchers, 713
Actual and Expected Double Plays, 1950-2001, 717
About the Authors, 728
Abouts STATS, Inc., 729