One Point for appearances, starts or shutouts Two Points for complete games, lowest walks per 9 innings or lowest hits per 9 innings Three Points for innings pitched, win-loss percentage or saves Two Points for doubles, walks or stolen basesįour Points for wins, earned run average or strikeouts Three Points for runs scored, hits or slugging percentage To get a point you must lead the league in that category.įour Points for home runs, runs batted in or batting average This method penalizes more recent players as they have 14-16 teams per league, while the older players had just 8. The essential point is to measure how often a player led the league in a variety of "important" stats.
The definition for the test that I'm using here was written up in Bill James's The Politics of Glory, p.
Named so because league leading numbers are traditionally represented with Boldface type.
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