One more illustration on my point.. back in those days I used to present a yearly "Win Shares" list for each team. I think i never really brought that back because it didn't seem like many people were that interested in it. Win Shares has its flaws, but for the sake of my argument, I think it serves its point here..
Picking just one year out of the middle of Long Island's run, here are two players that got paid roughly the same amount for that team:
| first_name | last_name | HittingWinShares | PitchingWinShares | FieldingWinShares | TotalWinShares |
|---|
| "Luke" | "Crawford" | 25.8731255025031 | 0 | 6.45581879639076 | 32.3289442988939 |
| "John" | "Hunt" | 12.963149216274 | 0 | 2.36902869970318 | 15.3321779159772 |
For the same amount of money in 1980, Luke Crawford contributed twice as much as John Hunt (the middle of their lineup) did. Just for reference, how important was Crawford's 32 Win shares for his team that year?
In 2032 FOOL, only 3 players in FOOL had that many win shares for their own team. (Run-ming Zhui, Ramon Santos and Jesus Estrada). That many win shares means that Crawford deserved that much money honestly it equaled roughly $1 mil per win that Crawford was responsible for that team that season.
I don't have the 2033 Win shares for FOOL computed yet (I do it after the playoffs usually), so can't really give a comparison just yet on how it compares to today's time. Anyways, I agree.. I love fun conversations like this. I find them very interesting personally
The only thing better would be if we were in a bar with a beer for the discussion!