Scoring reversals: a major league dilemma

Recent work shows that, in theory scoring methods are very sensitive to the scoring points used. I analyze the results of Most Valuable Player voting in baseball as a test of the practical relevance of this work. I find that Most Valuable Player rankings are indeed quite dependent on the particular scoring points in use.The author thanks Bill Deane of the National Baseball Hall of Fame for supplying voting data, and Gary Cohen and Andy Schotter for discussions. Technical support from the G. V. Storr Center for Applied Economics is gratefully acknowledged.