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Message: [QUOTE="connie, post: 2733118, member: 7882"] Interesting. But the OPS+ stat. for career shows how much "better" Ruth and Williams were [I]relative to the competition during their careers. [/I]As the difference between best and worse narrows, and as overall excellence among all players increases over time, the highest OPS+ would become [I]lower [/I]over time, right? In that respect, I question how much OPS+ can tell us when comparing different players competing in different eras (and this assumes exterior conditions, such as rules, pretty much stay the same). This is not posed as a criticism. Just trying to understand what the statistic can tell us, and how we can avoid being misled by it. [/QUOTE]