Understanding WIN METHOD

It appears there is some confusion out there regarding the WIN METHOD. 99 44/100% of the confusion seems to be in the minds of the stat frauds. Who would have guessed? First, the WIN METHOD defines a player for a season, several seasons, or a career based on how much they helped there team reach the playoffs, win pennants, and win the World Series. The more times a player helps his team reach these goals the higher his rating. Now, that is not to complicated. Second, I use stats, probably most everybody uses stats in one way or another. The use of stats to see how much power a player shows, high high an average he hits, how many runs he scores, RBIs he gets and so on is fine and tells much about players. However, there is only one truly valid way to judge just how good any players is. And that is using the WIN METHOD evaluation. It makes no difference what an individuals personal stats are. Many of those individual stats are dependent on his team mates anyways. Plus, what an individual accomplishes for himself, is not the object of the game. That last sentence is where the stat frauds are led astray. The object of the game is for the overall success of the team. That is exactly why players must be judged on how they help the team succeed. Yes, a players final evaluation is based on his team mates. Team mates playing together for the success of the team, the reason the games are played. As great as one individuals personal stats may be, if he does not provide what is needed WHEN it is needed, that player can hurt a team. WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, the most important element of the WIN METHOD. A sacrifice fly to win a game in the last inning in infinitely more important than a grand slam in last inning of a game your team is winning 10-0. One helps the team win, the other only helps the individuals stats. Stat Fraud can be defined as a person who tries to tell you a player is the best based solely on that players individual statistics. A bigger stat fraud is someone who uses a convoluted made up formula to define a players defensive prowess or anything else about that player. To conclude, there is nothing wrong with using stats, but please do not become a stat fraud and define a players ability by his individual stats. Define a player by using the WIN METHOD, and find out over his career, how many times he helps his team to the playoffs, pennants, and WS. Headed to Tampa for an extended period, more blog when I get back.

WIN METHOD EVALUATION

Rating players using the WIN METHOD evaluation method is reasonably simple. The results will give you the best of the best of the greatest players in the game. I will claim one caveat however. It is near impossible to compare players of different eras reliably or fairly against each other. It is best to use the WIN METHOD to compare players of the same era or time frame. Different eras had different rules, ballparks were different, the introduction of more teams and the playoff system, there were no Negro, Latin, or Asian players during many eras. Equipment was different, the pitching mound has been altered, etc.

One thing is positive and undeniable (except by stat frauds), is that the greatest of the great players always and consistently helped their team to success and championships. Not individual misguided personal stats, but for the reason the game of baseball has been and is played. The things that determine the greatest. Wins and winning. To be able to determine the greatest of the great players, one only needs to go to the record books and find which players over their careers and eras helped their team to the most playoffs, pennants, and World Series Championships. Rate players by their respective role to each players team. Compare starting position players to other starting position players. Compare pitchers to pitchers, relief pitcher to relief pitchers. Backup infielders to backup infielders and backup outfielders to backup outfielders. Use common sense and always ask why. Why did these players achieve for their team more than others with greater individual stats did for their team. One gigantic WIN METHOD reason, they played for the success of the team, not their individual statistics. Winning was paramount to these greatest of the greats. Their character and will to be the best made them willing to sacrifice individual stats in order to help their team win. There you have it WIN METHOD fans. Take the stat frauds with a grain of salt, look them in the eye and ask them just how their individual stat guys could lose and still be the best. There answer will usually be, it was the players team mates fault.

WIN METHOD Selection 3

This will be the final points on the WIN METHOD selection process. In the future we will discuss how the WIN METHOD determines the truly best of the best players. The WIN METHOD became active in 1994 after a two year evaluation period. The great YANKEE teams of the mid nineties and hence have predominantly been selected through the WIN METHOD process. Not every single player, but 90% of them. Since the WIN METHODS active inception the YANKEE team has had the best record in baseball, and has consistently been the dominant team. Unfortunately, some players signed have not been WIN METHOD selected. Those signed to minor status (role player) do not hurt the team to a great degree. Those signed to major status (starting position player(, to this day still tend to cripple the team. Playing for ones self, individual stats and individual recognition does not bode well for team chemistry. These players tend to perform well in less meaningful situations, yet tend to fail miserably and consistently when big games are on the line. As we move into the next phase, the WIN METHOD player evaluation, you will see and be able to understand why these players are the best in the game. They WIN, and help their team WIN. The reason the game of baseball in played.

WIN METHOD Selection 2

Delving deeper in the WIN METHOD selection process. The interview is paramount to determining which players can help your team to success. Most baseball enthusiasts just look at stats and make their selections in that manner. Many teams interview players to some minor degree, but their selection is still made using misleading stats.
The WIN METHOD interview reaches the inner soul and beliefs of players. The WIN METHOD determines which players are wiling to help their team succeed over their own individual statistics. Players who are satisfied and accept hitting behind a runner, reaching base safely in any form to keep an inning going, accepting a single in a clutch situation, giving up their body to make a big time defensive play. The WIN METHOD interview was developed and is evolving over a 40 year period. Job seekers in the business world, many times, are hired on the basis of an interview. In other words, there are brilliant people that come from no-name schools that can help businesses succeed more than those from Ivy League schools. The same thing is true in the baseball industry. The greatest players can come from any background and from anywhere. That is where the WIN METHOD selection process comes in. Being used by only one team in Major League Baseball, it has made that team the most consistently dominant and successful team in baseball. The WIN METHOD is able to determine both what free agents and what draftees may be able to help the team and organization to the most success. The greatest asset of the WIN METHOD interview, is that the people being interviewed are not aware of the process they are undergoing. One caveat however, a player can be WIN METHOD for one team and not another, or he can be WIN METHOD for several different teams. It depends on the player. However, only one team truly knows if they have a WIN METHOD player or not.
Here's a tip to you readers, the next time you go for a job interview, be on your toes, prepare, and respond honestly. The great interviewer gives great interviews and can read through the BS.

WIN METHOD Selection

The WIN METHOD is comprised of two separate entities. First, there is the player selection process. Second, there is the player rating process. This blog entry will deal with the first step, the player selection process.

As many of you know, the player selection in almost every sport is done by the amassing of voluminous amounts of individual statistics on players from high school, college, Latin American leagues, Japanese leagues, minor leagues, etc. Yet in every sport some of the greatest players come 'out of the woodwork' so to speak. They are the 'no individual stat guys' picked in the very late rounds that confound the foolish stat mavens who know little to nothing about anything. Most teams also use a very minor interview process with players they are looking at. Here is where the WIN METHOD comes in.

The WIN METHOD selection process is a highly evolved and evolving (over 50 years in the developing) process that finds what makes a player tick, looks into his soul and inner desires, then determines his ability to help a team win. The object of the game of baseball is for the team to win games, reach the playoffs, win the pennant, and then win the World Series. This is accomplished by all the players on a team helping each other to help their team win games. This is not accomplished by how many or how much any one player amasses in individual statistics. The goal of winning is attained by WHEN players deliver for their team. The WIN METHOD interview process can determine which players are best suited to helping a team win. Players who do not care what their individual stats are, but players who would rather help their team win, by doing whatever is needed at any time and producing in a timely manner when the games may be on the line and the pressure is at its highest.

The goal of the WIN METHOD is finding these players who would rather win than attain individual statistics. Did any of you ever ask yourselves....why are some players in the post season every year?... why do some players win multiple pennants and World Series?... why do some players with some of the greatest individual stats flounder in achieving these goals? The key to the greatest WIN METHOD players, is not how much or how many you attain for yourself, but WHEN you attain for the team. The WIN METHOD through a highly developed, highly sophisticated, and unparalleled process is able to find many of these players.

Another of the components of the WIN METHOD selection, is the player wanting to play for the team. Yes getting paid as much as he can, but primarily wanting to sign with a team he wants to play for. Throw in the WIN METHODS ability to determine if a player may be able to perform under pressure and in the big time or big city lights, and you come up with many winners who will help their team achieve its goals.

As we go forward in this blog, you will see just how all this determines who the best players are and why. The key being, not how much nor how many anyone attains for himself, but WHEN he achieves for the team.

MANNY TOO?

My most recent information has the YANKEE captain Derek Jeter presently talking with Manny Ramirez. The decision will soon be made whether or not to offer Manny a 3 year $25M contract. If Manny passes the Jeter test, Manny could be offered a contract as soon as next week. The YANKEES signing of Manny would surely throw the baseball world into an uproar and send many cry baby fans of other teams straight to their crying towels. A Manny signing would be just another nail in the Arod coffin and could make Arods miserable clutch hitting a moot and mute point, since truly qualified WIN METHOD hitters would pick up Arods slack.

YANKEE SIGNING 2

Here's the scoop on Mark Teixeira. It appears Mr. Teixeira will soon sign a YANKEE contract and become the YANKEE first baseman. This may be the much needed piece that can counteract the detrimental effect of the sad untimely clutch hitting of the sieve choker Arod. Teixeira will be a perfect fit for the new cathedral of baseball, the new YANKEE STADIUM. With the captain Derek Jeter, the best all around player in MLB since the mid 90's leading the way. A revamped pitching staff led by Wang, Sabathia, Burnett, Chamberlin, and Pettitte, the YANKEES could be in store for a big season.

For the many of you who have asked for more information and postings regarding the WIN METHOD and how it works, more information will be coming. Remember everyone, that WHEN a player performs and helps his team win, is far and away more important and valuable to his team than hwo many and much he attains for himself and does not help the team win. The stat geeks are crying already.

YANKEE SIGNING

C.C. Sabathia will soon become a YANKEE. After having met with YANKEE captain Derek Jeter, and with the greatest owner in MLB opening the purse strings, it appears Sabathia will sign an extended YANKEE contract. This will give the YANKEES a second 'ace' behind Wang, and solidify a very promising staff. If only the YANKEES would not have signed the sieve choker arod at third base, winning would be almost a sure thing. While working around arod is not easy, it can be done. arod has not ever been, nor will ever be a WIN METHOD player. A player who plays for the teams success and not his own personal records.

INDIVIDUAL STATS 3

Spent fourteen hours at YANKEE STADIUM yesterday. Talked with many former and present YANKEE players, all of whom I have talked to in the past. Relating to the WIN METHOD and how little meaning individual stats are in defining the greatest players, Reggie Jackson spoke on this subject. From what I have heard, Reggie, in a national network interview, said 'how meaningless individual stats can be in determining a players true ability to help his team and in essence be a truly great player. A great player is not measured by individual statistics, but by what he contributes to his teams success. The ability to perform under trying conditions in playoffs and World Series contests. Helping his team win multiple World Series titles and thus achieving true greatness.'

Success can be measured in different ways by different people. The individual stat users who feel that what a player individually achieves for himself determines his greatness have found 'fools gold'. Individual stats are relatively worthless. Yes, they tell you how much, how many, etc. for each player. But they do not measure WHEN. WHEN is the single most important detail in measuring the great players of baseball. The greatest players of any era, achieve their greatest players of all time stature by achieving in the playoffs and the World Series over and over. The truly greatest players in baseball history of any era WIN multiple World Series rings, not only for themselves, but for their team.

The speech by Derek Jeter, (one of the greatest players in baseball over his career), was brilliant and poignant. It was a great salute to the fans, the game of baseball, and the Cathedral of baseball, YANKEE STADIUM.

INDIVIDUAL STATS 2

Evaluating baseball players is not as hard as the stat geeks like to make it out to be. Baseball is a team effort, with the desired outcome for the team to win the most often. The players who help their respective team to the most successes are the players who are truly the best in the game. How do players achieve the best in the game status? Simply by helping their team to the most playoffs, pennants, and World Series Championships, the most often, and the most consistently. What more can a fan, manager, owner, franchise, ask of a player, than to help his team to these goals. All the individual stats in the world are meaningless (but for the fantasy world) if the player does not help his team win. You may be wondering how a player with great individual stats can not help his team. Because, it is never a matter of how many, or how much he achieves individually, but it is of the greatest value and importance WHEN he achieves. A game winning hit in the very late innings of a game is far and away more valuable to a team than a grand slam late in the game you are winning 10-0. WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, is the key, and WHEN determines the greatest of the great. But that grand slam can really make your individual stats look good while not helping your team one iota.

BASEBALL INDIVIDUAL STATS

This blog is dedicated to showing how meaningless individual stats for a baseball player are. The blog will show the reader how individual stats can be used, and where they can be used to help define a player.

For starters, you the fan, will have to realize that baseball is played by individuals for one purpose. The purpose being, the success of the team. To many fans have been taught that individual stats tell the ability of a player. These fans have lost sight (or never had the sight) to realize that it is not what a player achieves for himself that is important, but what the player helps his team achieve that matters.

As I post in this this blog, I will show you how to judge talent, and how to judge the best players in the game of baseball. It really isn't complicated. I will show you how to draft the best possible prospects for a team can be drafted. One caveat, this method, know as the WIN METHOD is not good for fantasy baseball leagues. Why? Because fantasy leagues are determined by individual stats, and individual stats are relatively meaningless.

Please come back, and learn real baseball. Use your common sense, and you will be enlightened. You will see baseball in a new light and not get bogged down with meaningless individual stats.