Just a quick note here. . ..I had a question in “Hey, Bill” about Mariano Rivera’s Win Shares/Loss Shares. I knew that I had figured that somewhere, but I couldn’t get to that computer at the time. But I have found it, so I thought I would post that here. As you can see, Rivera still has relatively modest totals of Win Shares, but his impact is that the Wins are in a context of extremely small totals of Loss Shares, so that his impact on the pennant race is comparable to that of a player with larger totals.
YEAR
Team
AGE
W
L
PCT
G
GS
SV
GF
IP
I3
H
R
ER
BB
SO
ERA
Wins
Losses
1995
Yankees
25
5
3
.625
19
10
0
2
67
71
43
41
30
51
5.51
4
1996
26
8
.727
61
14
107
73
34
130
2.09
13
1997
27
6
.600
66
56
65
17
15
20
68
1.88
12
1
1998
28
1.000
54
36
49
48
1.91
1999
29
.571
45
63
69
18
52
1.83
11
2000
7
.636
75
58
24
2.85
2001
31
.400
50
80
21
83
2.34
2002
32
.200
37
46
35
16
2.74
2003
33
.714
64
40
57
70
1.66
2004
.667
74
53
78
1.94
2005
1.38
2006
.500
59
55
1.60
2007
.429
3.15
9
138