Can you name the ten unique players at each position with the highest single-season WAR? by deej

Can you name the ten unique players at each position with the highest single-season WAR?

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Source: http://www.baseball-reference.com
If a player has multiple top-ten seasons at a position, he is ignored within that position after the first one - there are ten unique players per position. Since 1901, min 50% of games at position.
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Catcher
LAD - 8.5
CIN - 8.5
MON - 8.3
MIN - 7.6
KCR - 7.4
BOS - 7.0
NYY - 6.9
BRO - 6.8
ATL - 6.7
PHI - 6.7

First Base
NYY - 11.5
PHA - 10.2
SLB - 9.6
MIN - 9.5
STL - 9.4
BOS - 9.3
DET - 8.9
OAK - 8.8
COL - 8.6
SFG - 8.5

Second Base
STL - 12.0
CIN - 10.8
PHA - 10.1
CLE - 9.8
HOU - 9.3
BRO - 9.3
STL - 9.1
PHI - 9.0
SEA - 8.5
TBR - 8.4

Third Base
CLE - 9.8
CHC - 9.6
PHI - 9.5
NYY - 9.3
LAD - 9.3
KCR - 9.3
BOS - 9.0
PHA - 9.0
STL - 8.9
ATL - 8.9

Shortstop
BAL - 11.3
PIT - 11.3
MIL - 10.4
CLE - 10.2
SEA - 10.1
CHC - 9.9
STL - 9.7
BOS - 9.5
CLE - 9.2
PIT - 9.1

Left Field
NYY - 12.6
BOS - 12.0
SFG - 11.6
BOS - 10.7
OAK - 9.8
ATL - 8.7
STL - 8.7
SLB - 8.5
TEX - 8.4
STL - 8.4

Center Field
NYY - 11.1
DET - 11.1
SFG - 10.9
NYY - 9.8
BOS - 9.8
SEA - 9.5
MLN - 9.1
BRO - 9.1
PHI - 8.8
BOS - 8.6

Right Field
NYY - 12.1
STL - 10.8
CHC - 10.1
COL - 9.6
DET - 9.5
CLE - 9.3
MLN - 9.1
SEA - 9.0
DET - 8.9
OAK - 8.8

DH
CHW - 6.8
SEA - 6.7
BOS - 6.2
CLE - 5.7
TOR - 5.5
TEX 4.9
BOS - 4.9
BOS - 4.9
TEX - 4.8
CHW - 4.6

Starting Pitcher
WSH - 14.3
BOS - 12.4
NYM - 11.9
CHC - 11.8
PHI - 11.7
TOR - 11.6
CHW - 11.5
BOS - 11.4
NYG - 11.3
CHW - 11.2

Relief Pitcher
CHW - 8.1
DET - 7.9
TOR - 7.1
CHC - 6.5
CIN - 6.1
TEX - 6.0
BOS - 6.0
STL - 5.8
MIN - 5.6
CLE - 5.5

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MLB - Highest Single-Season WAR by Position Quiz

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Created Aug 8, 2012 in Sports
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	floydpink:	Aug 9th, 2012 at 06:11 GMT		7 points
	I think it would be a much more elegant quiz without the relief pitchers.

	pwtiii:	Aug 9th, 2012 at 07:22 GMT		-3 points
	How do they calculate WAR for old players? Because it factors in defensive WAR, and how do they calculate that? Do they just base it on fielding percentage? I don't see what else they'd have to go on. And if they do, it becomes a flawed and mostly useless statistic.

	torourke:	Aug 9th, 2012 at 15:10 GMT		1 point
	good quiz, those relief pitchers were TOUGH

	cvip:	Aug 9th, 2012 at 15:13 GMT		1 point
	They need to develop a metric that better recognizes modern-day relievers.

	deej:	Aug 9th, 2012 at 15:53 GMT		1 point
	floydpink: yeah, it's hard to guess most of the relievers, but you can't whitewash history - those guy simply pitched as many innings as a starting pitcher does now. Cvip: why don't you devise one?

	mraithel13:	Aug 9th, 2012 at 20:17 GMT		2 points
	looking up Terry Turner....

	bmo1616:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 01:43 GMT		-1 points
	@cvip they need to develop a different metric period lol, so sick of these WAR quizzes, such a flawed statistic.

	McHinch:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 02:20 GMT		1 point
	This is a cool quiz, but I think WAR is a terribly flawed statistic. That's why I'd really have liked to see the years- not so much to make the quiz easier as much to be able to look the guys up afterward.

	McHinch:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 02:21 GMT		1 point
	Definitely- the relief pitchers were really hard. I only got 2- the obvious ones, Gossage and Sutter. No Rivera! No Hoffman! I kind of figured it would be older relievers who used to pitch a lot more innings than they do nowadays. This is yet another way it shows WAR to be flawed. Relievers weren't "more important" decades ago. They just played a different role. There weren't set up guys like there are now.

	McHinch:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 02:23 GMT		1 point
	And yet another way this shows how flawed WAR is- Lonnie Smith had the 6th best season ever for a LF!?!?! And that was 1989, when the Braves were as terrible as you can possibly be. So... the worst team in the league would have been 8.7 games worse with an average player instead of L Smith?

	twarner50:	Aug 19th, 2012 at 15:09 GMT		1 point
	Keep in mind, this quiz uses Baseball-Reference's WAR formula (my least favorite of the three). Fangraphs only gives Lonnie Smith a 8.2 for his 1989 campaign, and Baseball Prospectus gives him a 7.6. It's also important to note that Smith led the league in OBP that year and was 5th in slugging, and 1989 was a down year for LFs. This already wasn't the 6th best season for a LF (factoring out the many times Ruth, Bonds, et al had single-season WARs higher than Smith's '89), but WAR doesn't claim to show what seasons were the "best" anyway. Seeing as Smith led the league in OBP and had a very good SLG, it was a down year for LFs, and he was a very good defensive player during that part of his career, I can see how his WAR would be very high, especially given the BR formula's perceived relative weight on defense.