The Baseball Gauge introduces a new way of computing Wins Above Replacement. Here’s is there list of the greatest careers based on that measure.

Hat tip, The Book Blog.

Update: I wonder if we take all three major WAR calculations and average them together if we get a better result than any one gives us individually? When I worked in information retrieval, we found that the combination of results from multiple search engines worked better than any one search engine. If an article appeared high on a list of many search engines, it was probably a good find for that search. The same thing might work here, since each implementation of WAR captures different aspects of the game.