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Who led baseball in HRs the most seasons? (1 Viewer)

Ryan99

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Does anyone know of a way to look up stats like this? Baseball-reference allows looking up player seasons by raw numbers (>35 HR for instance) but not by yearly rank (top 10 in HR for instance). Does anyone know of a site where you can do searches like this?

I'm also interested in season adjusted stats where a player's stats are compared to league averages from that season. For instance, for HR you'd calculate a league average and standard deviation for HR/Plate Appearance and then compute how many SDs a player is above or below the average.

 
I don't, but I know the answer is Babe Ruth. Looking at his baseball-reference page, he led the league 12 times. Other guys I would suspect are high on the list - Ralph Kiner 7, Mike Schmidt 8, Gavvy Cravath 6

 
Does anyone know of a way to look up stats like this? Baseball-reference allows looking up player seasons by raw numbers (>35 HR for instance) but not by yearly rank (top 10 in HR for instance). Does anyone know of a site where you can do searches like this?I'm also interested in season adjusted stats where a player's stats are compared to league averages from that season. For instance, for HR you'd calculate a league average and standard deviation for HR/Plate Appearance and then compute how many SDs a player is above or below the average.
There used to be a full baseball seasons database someone that was free. I will see if I can find it again and whether it has been updated. It would be easy to do with that.Edit: Here is the db through 2011 - http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/
 
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Awesome, thanks for the work guys. I will definitely check out that database.This came up because I was watching the Always Sunny Christmas episode from season 6(?) and Mac flips out on a guy and goes off about Mike Schmidt and Von Hayes. I'm a Philly guy so I thought the Von Hayes reference was great and went to baseball-reference to look up Schmidt's and Hayes' stats. I noticed how much black ink Schmidt had in the HR column and figured the 8 time HR leader would probably rank second all time. Aaron only had it 4 times.

 
Baseball reference is an awesome tool. Tons of leaders boards of all types, including the topic here, who led the league most often in a articulate category.

 
Baseball reference is an awesome tool. Tons of leaders boards of all types, including the topic here, who led the league most often in a articulate category.
I couldn't find such a tool on baseball-reference. Can you tell me where to go specifically?
 

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