RPI Index All Stars - AL and NL

By BostonMac, Section MLB
Posted on Tue Jul 11 2006 at 11:58 PM EST
More on: All-Stars, statistics, MLB (all tags)

By Ryan McGowan

I devised a system of ranking players in each league based on their relative standing within their league in ten offensive categories: batting average, home runs, runs batted in, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, bases on balls, doubles, stolen bases, runs, and hits.  I then looked to the inspiration of the college football and basketball polls for the scoring system; a first-place ranking in any one of the categories gets a player 10 points, a second-place ranking is worth 9, all the way down to 1 point for a tenth place ranking in their league.

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