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Originally Posted by Rasmuth
When you look at Rice on his baseballreference page...the 10 most similar players....
4 of the 10 are HOF'ers....Cepeda, Snider, B.Williams & Willie Stargell
1 of the others is a probable HOF'er....Sheffield....
so in a weak class when someone is goingi to go in...his credentials may be the best of the lot...
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Similarity scores are an awful way of determining HoF credibility for a multitude of reasons.
Also, looking at those scores... the only player who'se similarity score is over 900 to him is Cepeda... who was a definitely superior player.
Actually this is a beautiful illustration of why similarity scores suck for this kind of thing. Cepeda is his most similar player... and those scores go by raw numbers. Cepeda played in the '60's... in a completely different run scoring environment than Rice played in.
^^Edit: aka, what DH said