Win Shares

Win Shares
AuthorBill James and
Jim Henzler
SubjectBaseball statistics
PublisherSTATS, Inc.
Publication date
2002
Pages729
ISBN1-931584-03-6
OCLC49718211

Win Shares is a 2002 book about baseball written by Bill James and Jim Henzler. The book explains how to apply the concept of sabermetrics to assess the impact of player performance in a combination of several areas, including offensive, defensive, and pitching on their team's overall performance. The resulting "Win Share" also takes into account factors such as the era in which the player was active to allow easy comparisons between players from different eras.[1] The book focuses primarily on the many formulas involved in computing the final number of win shares accumulated.

Win Shares Digital Update, a companion volume of tables and statistics through the 2001 season.

  1. ^ Baker, Jim (February 6, 2004). "Statistics sometimes tell the story – MLB – ESPN". ESPN. Retrieved 1 August 2015.