In part 1, we looked at two stats devised by Bill James, Win Shares and the Hall of Fame Monitor, and found that they generally hold up as standards for the Hall of Fame. As for Black Ink Test and Similarity Scores, I think they are valuable, but there are ways to augment them. The Black Ink test has an inherent era bias built into it, which James alluded to when he published his study: “Of course, it is harder to lead the league in multiple categories now, when there are fourteen [or 16] teams in a league, than it was in 1935, but hey, nothing’s perfect.” (p. 67)
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