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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Calculating the Elias rankings
By Tangotiger, 10:21 PM
About 25 years ago, the Baseball Digest provided the complete details to the Elias rankings. It was, to say the least, terrible. Basically, players are ranked with an ordinal in 4 or 5 categories, averaged, and then players are grouped in position groups, and their totals are subtracted from 101, so that a guy who finishes 1 across the board is a “100”. It’s silly, I know. I don’t have those Baseball Digest, but I asked an insider if he can share the current formula. If/until that happens, I did unearth a couple of Murray Chass articles that provide some details (what follows are excerpts from NY Times articles of 20 years ago):
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