Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
November 17, 2003
MVP Monday

The AL MVP will be announced today. It's going to be a close vote today, as it has been reported that 10 different players have received first place votes. The voting system used by the baseball writers for their awards is a Borda count, which has been shown to be the fairest system of voting available. Borda counts are extremely good at picking the consensus favorite when there are multiple candidates. In cases like this year, you get a consensus 2nd choice, rather than a winner with a low percentage plurality. Based on that, I think A-Rod is going to win (finally). While you can make any number of arguments against him being #1 (he didn't play for a winner, blah, blah blah), there is not excuse for his not being in the top two. We'll see for sure this afternoon, but a long time injustice may finally be rectified.


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