Astros HOF Index: Second Base Positive Outliers

Sports fans in general are fascinated with excellence. It’s easy to understand why. Guys can sit around the barber shop and sports bar and argue vehemently over who is the best ever. I reiterate the same thing I do in every instance. The index was not designed to rank order players. It also does not definitively say who should be in and who should be out.

It acts as one of many tests we can perform to help answer that question. Any debate over the best ever would have to include the same methodology. As fun as that debate is, we go through this exercise for one other major reason. When we are looking at potential Hall of Famers we have a tendency to compare them with the entire group and…