![]() Now we have every player’s career covering their age 14 to 22 seasons. Once you’re there, you want to go to the Filter Age option and change 58 to 22, like so: To do this, the fastest option is to hover over Leaders at the top of any page, and click Career under Batting Leaders (you can get there other ways, this will just save clicks). Can we figure out where his bat ranks through age 22? One of the amazing things about Bryce Harper is how well he’s performing at such a young age. There are a lot of other things you can do on the site, but we’ll just look at one more today. Want to know who the best hitter was from 1947 to 1960 by OBP? You can do that. You can select any year range, change the PA threshold, look at multiple years instead of split seasons, isolate positions, and much more. That’s very impressive, and something we learned using the leaderboards at FanGraphs. Wow, Bryce Harper is having the fourth best offensive season since he was born and the only three ahead of him are Barry Bonds. Since we care about wRC+, I’ve then proceeded to click on wRC+ to sort the board. If you’ve done it right and hit submit, you’re leaderboard will show up below sorted by WAR. You want to put a check in the box next to Split Seasons and then you want to change the season range to 1993 to 2015. You need to make two simple changes to the top panel of settings to answer this question. Start by going to any batting leaderboard. Can we figure out where Harper’s 2015 wRC+ ranks among single seasons since then? Bryce Harper was born in October of 1992, so the first baseball season of his life was the 1993 season. ![]() Now that we’ve done that, let’s think about where Harper’s season ranks offensively as of late. These reports can include multiple players, can be filtered and adjusted like any other leaderboard, and you can save them for future use. The URL is permanent, so you can share the comparison with other people and show them how much better Harper is than Upton at everything except base running. Voila! Your leaderboard is only a comparison of Harper and Upton. Once you have the names you want, click Create Custom Player List and you’ll get a page like this: You’ll start typing and then you click on their names. To compare the stats of Harper and Upton, all you have to do is type their names (Last Name, First Name) into the Custom Players “Add Players” section. Yours will look like this except your custom reports will be different because you’re not me, and those are based on your account. Scroll down to the bottom of any leaderboard page to the section that looks like this: ![]() Not at all, and we can do so without flipping back and forth between their player pages. You can sort all of those columns and see where he stacks up with everyone, but what if you want to compare Harper to a player who isn’t right next to him on the list? Is it a hassle to compare Harper with Justin Upton? Bryce Haper leads the league in WAR as of this writing. ![]()
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