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Quiz: ESPN rescaled the career HR totals for MLB by each player's annual distance from the mean. Name the "new" top 10.

Posted by TFox Jul 6 '10, 08:34

Put simply, if you hit 43 HRs in a year when 45 was the peak and 18 was the average, that carries more weight than hitting 50 in a year when 70 was the peak and 28 was the average.

It attempts to place all the hitters in historical context, ignoring what reasons any individual year might have been wacky.

Some are pretty simple, others are kind of weird.

Responses:

Joaquin Phoenix, Prince... -- nm - Mop (220 lbs) Jul 6, 08:46
Musial, ARod -- nm - Jim Jul 6, 08:42 2
- nope. (maybe this formula is too complicated to guess.) -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:43 1
  - Yeah...I don't get it...seeing some of the people not rated. I'll chalk it up to more ESPN bullshit. -- nm - Jim Jul 6, 08:44
Ruth, McGwire, Bonds, Canseco, C. Fielder, Aaron, Griffey Jr, Mantle, Dick Allen....Foxx? (nm) - musubi Jul 6, 08:38 4
- 2, NR, 3, NR, NR, 1, NR, NR, NR, NR -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:40 3
  - Wow. Schmidt? Strawberry? Teddy Ballgame? Mays? Kiner? Kingman? Clemente? - musubi Jul 6, 08:43 1
    - 9, NR, 8, 5, NR x3. Those were much better guesses. :) -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:44
  - (i also think i am underexplaining the methodology, fwiw. i think they also brought the league leaders back to the historical avg distance from mean.) -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:42
Hank Aaron still #1. -- nm - nubby Jul 6, 08:37 1
- *ding* -- nm - TFox Jul 6, 08:38

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Quiz: ESPN rescaled the career HR totals for MLB by each player's annual distance from the mean. Name the "new" top 10.

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