THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

nice of Bob to offer that. 

Would he care to list the instructions for MVP voting, too?

I have seen those several times around the web in the past couple of years.  Should be easy enough to find.  Look for things like “character”, and you will probably find it.

That was easy:

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/win-shares-for-mvp/

thanks

those don’t seem much more helpful than what the CY instructions say.
although #2 (number of games played) would seem to lend support to voters who don’t believe pitchers should be MVPs.

In one sense, the Cy instructions are more clear cut, since the title on the trophy “most outstanding” leaves little room for discussion.

The MVP instructions are a hodge-podge of things that are so ambiguous.  Indeed, had they simply said “Vote on the Most Outstanding Player”, and leave it at that, it’d be clearer.