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Win Shares is a book (ISBN 1-931584-03-6) about baseball written by Bill James, published by STATS, Inc. in 2002. It is a book that explains the concepts of win shares, a baseball statistic. It takes a sabermetric approach to evaluating the contribution of individual players to their teams' overall performance, and focuses primarily on the many formulae involved in computing the final number of win shares accumulated, as well as presenting many lists of players ranked in various ways using the rating.
Rob Neyer, writing for ESPN, called the book "groundbreaking".
In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, David Andriesen wrote of the book: "James, our foremost sabermetrician (a made-up word that means "guy who uses mathematics to study baseball"), has spent years developing a system called "win shares" a number that at its most basic level represents how many victories a player created for his team. His book on the system, titled "Win Shares," was recently published ... The result is a simple number. The method used to arrive at the number is enough to make John Forbes Nash pound his head against a brick wall."
The Providence Journal noted that the book was printed in 2002, and doesn't list statistics for the 2002 season, and performed pre-2002 Red-Sox Yankee comparisons based on the book's new statistic.
Hardball Times noted that based on reader responses, it appeared that the book was well received, and detailed what it liked and disliked about it.
The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch have used the statistic to compare ballplayers.
Author Doug Decatur, in his book Traded, rated the 306 most lopsided trades from 1901 to 2000 basing his rankings on Bill James' "win shares".
The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, 2001 edition, also written by James, uses win shares to evaluate the careers of many players, and to place them in contexts where they can be compared. The two books are effectively companions to one another.
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