Expected win contribitions by defensive position, normalized to 650 PA

The main reason I constructed this table was to help in translating the raw expected win contribitions of individual players into some notion of actual value (such as financial) or hall of fame worthiness. For instance, a rightfielder with typical fielding ability should be expected to outperform a shortstop by about 1.5 more offensively contributed wins.

It is also interesting to note the trends in offensive contributions by position, e.g. the worst of the last 9 years of DH's is better than all but one of the first 9 years, SS has generally improved, and P has gotten worse.



Year P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF DH PH
1972 -6.1143 -0.4533 2.0124 -0.5772 0.0614 -1.2108 1.4218 1.0493 1.0949 ------- -4.0118
1973 -6.4044 -0.6581 1.1377 -0.1607 0.2896 -1.8585 1.2146 0.6906 0.5888 0.7712 -1.0249
1974 -5.5759 -0.9510 1.2811 -0.6808 -0.1285 -1.5350 1.4344 0.5430 1.4677 0.0470 -2.6683
1975 -6.4569 -0.8022 1.4533 -0.1151 0.1117 -1.7509 0.9159 0.4413 1.2846 -0.0745 -1.1953
1976 -6.4140 -1.1244 1.0351 -0.8052 -0.0239 -1.2673 1.1298 0.5883 1.1230 0.2123 -2.2720
1977 -6.5560 0.0544 1.4688 -0.8024 0.3110 -2.2684 1.0432 0.4825 1.4240 0.2493 -2.2496
1978 -6.4219 -0.3196 1.5643 -0.6731 0.2467 -1.2712 1.2116 0.2501 1.0503 0.0021 -0.4571
1979 -7.1750 -0.3318 1.3578 -0.8528 0.3405 -1.6143 0.9645 0.5604 1.0506 0.2374 -2.4306
1980 -6.3540 -0.4839 1.2641 -0.9901 0.1295 -1.7262 1.2628 0.5203 0.7021 0.3060 -1.9096
1981 -6.7693 -0.7026 0.7901 -0.7324 0.9577 -1.4045 1.1104 0.9559 1.0964 -0.2825 -2.1180
1982 -6.6099 -0.7944 1.1404 -0.3957 0.2860 -1.3173 0.8628 0.3448 0.6379 0.6930 -3.6505
1983 -6.9304 -0.5555 0.9418 -0.5134 0.3635 -0.8760 0.9607 0.5443 0.5024 1.3310 -1.4178
1984 -6.8555 -0.9057 1.3530 -0.5992 0.2863 -1.4797 0.9377 0.8005 1.7486 0.4504 -3.2422
1985 -6.9184 -0.6153 1.5571 0.1827 -0.1404 -1.2725 0.7010 0.3687 0.5772 0.3543 -2.8078
1986 -7.2328 -1.0159 1.3787 -0.8292 0.5083 -0.9426 0.6369 0.4445 0.7554 0.5635 -1.8364
1987 -7.2670 -1.5229 2.0130 -0.1454 0.3080 -0.9997 0.5803 0.6402 0.7370 0.2318 -2.3158
1988 -7.6966 -0.9884 1.1441 -0.8068 0.0086 -0.7415 0.9298 0.4068 0.9307 1.0961 -3.6983
1989 -6.5490 -1.1218 1.9784 0.3195 -0.3575 -1.2333 1.2173 0.0822 0.6800 -0.1341 -3.6100
1990 -7.3495 -0.5709 1.4221 -0.4374 0.0244 -0.9479 1.0038 0.8565 0.4206 -0.1934 -2.9578
1991 -7.1046 -1.2272 0.9389 0.3777 0.0882 -0.8771 0.6237 0.4848 0.8775 0.6214 -2.9813
1992 -6.8513 -1.2422 1.2694 -0.0957 0.2645 -1.4196 0.7401 0.5893 0.1777 0.6521 -3.3126
1993 -7.2310 -0.5751 1.3245 -0.6837 0.0921 -0.9185 0.9431 0.2992 0.5741 -0.1892 -3.3686
1994 -8.0677 -0.9583 1.8162 -0.4553 -0.1689 -1.3714 0.6556 0.1557 0.8973 1.0740 -1.5526
1995 -7.5055 -0.6166 1.5363 -0.4289 -0.2170 -1.4011 0.6711 -0.1147 0.9654 1.1439 -1.9189
1996 -7.8188 -1.0921 1.2033 -1.0699 0.1039 -1.2063 1.1335 0.0204 0.7819 1.1119 -3.1067
1997 -8.1987 -0.7502 1.9314 -0.6865 0.2793 -1.2170 0.1399 0.0103 1.5423 0.7146 -4.0394
1998 -7.8409 -1.2541 1.6435 -0.1580 0.1743 -1.1800 0.7237 -0.1182 0.9568 1.1885 -3.5596
1999 -7.6927 -1.1786 1.2855 -0.0346 -0.2128 -0.8607 0.7286 0.0106 1.0245 0.9845 -3.4598
2000 -8.3764 -0.8845 1.7893 -0.7105 -0.6502 -0.7966 0.6427 0.2130 0.8009 0.8712 -2.3779
2001 -8.0638 -1.3726 1.6084 -0.3655 -0.1542 -0.7266 1.0341 0.1127 1.1951 0.1804 -3.0086
2002 -8.1170 -1.5601 1.6938 -0.5243 0.0674 -0.4479 0.8780 0.1194 1.0192 0.6601 -3.7558