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Posted By: Rich Klein

These writers try to "normalize" each year to an average and then compare a player to that normalized average.

One thing that does is help the players of the 1960's who suffered through the second dead ball era versus the hot shots of the 20's-30's who played during an time when scoring was much higher.

Is it right? Is it wrong? I don't know -- but that as a general principle is how these stat type of books are done

Rich