Title: Statistics lie
Product review: Not sure What Bill James was smoking, but his WinShares system is so biased it isn't funny.Get to the pitchers section. See his rankings? You'll find Seaver at #8 and Ryan at #24. Wait a minute...wasn't he saying he needed a system that didn't punish poor teams and over-reward good teams? Does run support (per pitcher, not team) matter? Does being effective over a longer period of time matter?So when I read the write-ups, they seemed like an NCAA basketball selection committee...basically he'll use one set of reasons for putting a guy higher, and not mention those same, applicable good reasons for putting another guy lower.Start by saying to yourself...if the job of a batter is to produce runs (not just HR, BB, bunt, SB), then the converse is true for pitchers...it's to NOT produce runs (not just limiting h, bb, HR, etc.).Read the first half of the book (about each decade) and that's good. His WinShares system is garbage.
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