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Originally Posted by BigCity
Understood, but I think the argument centers around only the five years I posted. Koufax was admittedly "wild" in his previous years before that, and his shortened career makes it necessary to compare his best 5 years with Pedro's best five years. I have no argument that Pedro's "total value" as an SP is more because he had a longer career.
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Koufax DERA
1962 - 3.32
1963 - 2.77
1964 - 2.64
1965 - 3.32
1966 - 2.71
WARP3
1962 - 5.4
1963 - 10.8
1964 - 8.7
1965 - 10.9
1966 - 12.1
Pedro DERA
1997 - 2.51
1998 - 2.90
1999 - 2.13
2000 - 1.71
2002 - 2.88
WARP3
1997 - 11.0
1998 - 9.8
1999 - 12.8
2000 - 13.8
2002 - 9.1
Not much doubt by looking at the adjusted statistics that Pedro was better in his peak years than Koufax was in his. Whether the numbers are trumped by "I was there, you weren't" fallacies is up to the reader.