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Originally Posted by kq76
Player C wasn't the best player? What are you basing that on, HR, RBI and BA? If so, then you might want to read some sabermetric articles. Or just think of this: OBP tells you more than BA (if you don't care about walking then you're going to miss out on scoring a lot of runs), SLG tells you more than HR (HRs are great, but doubles and triples do a whole lot of damage too), and RBI largely depends on teammates in front of you so that really doesn't tell you much about that player. But you need PA because with just rate stats you could have a guy who played great, but played in so few games that he really didn't contribute much. The difference in VORP tells me that his PA, OBP, SLG were most likely superior to that of the others which tells me he most likely was the best player.
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You can quote me all the stat data how this stat works with that stat and still doesn't change the basic truth. Sluggers win MVP awards. When sluggers don't win MVP the non slugger who does win it plays for a contening team. If VORP, OBP or some other obscure stat is to be used for MVP it should only be used for players on contending teams.
So yes, you can make an argument for Andre Dawson winning the MVP.(Wasn't my choice but yea I can see it.) But if Andre Dawson had played for a first place team he would have been a lock. Nobody was going to be voted MVP based on the fact they had a better OBP especially playing for a non contender