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The very self-consciously named Jaffe WARP Score system, which is designed to determine how a Hall of Famer or Hall of Fame candidate measures up to his enshrined peers at his position with regards to his regular season pitching, hitting, and fielding contributions. The goal of JAWS is to identify players who are above-average candidates for Hall of Fame enshrinement in these respects.
A player's JAWS score is the average of his career WARP3 total and his peak total [(Career WARP + Peak WARP) / 2], where peak is a player's best seven seasons (early versions of the system used best five consecutive, but this method was abandoned starting with the 2006 BBWAA ballot). This JAWS score is then compared to a modified average of the enshrined Hall of Famers at each position, with the lowest score--invariably an unqualified Veterans Committee selection--dropped (four pitchers are dropped).
Because the WARP data tends to undergo minor tweaks from time to time, JAWS standards at each position occasionally need to be re-computed. The standards for the 2007 BBWAA and VC ballots as computed from January 2007 data (including 2007 inductees Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn) are: POS WARP3 Peak JAWS
C 95.7 59.0 77.3
1B 106.1 62.8 84.5
2B 122.8 71.5 97.1
3B 117.4 67.3 92.4
SS 115.2 68.2 91.7
LF 111.1 62.6 86.8
CF 109.1 63.7 86.4
RF 119.8 65.5 92.7
SP 99.0 62.7 80.9
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