Weighted WAR: 2025 Update Part 2

Last time, we did a brief review of how the Weighted WAR system works, and also updated the top-100 lists for right field, left field, third base, and first base/DH to reflect the results of the 2025 season. Now, we’ll go over the remaining positions, as well as some numbers dealing with the current state of the top-100 lists as a whole.

The first update post opened with right field, the home of the player who had the best season in 2025. This time, let’s start with the home of the active player with the highest career rating: center field.

Weighted WAR: 2025 Update Part 1

Around this time last year, I posted a series of articles suggesting a variety of adjustments that can be made to Baseball Reference WAR (bWAR) for the purposes of historical comparison, and then constructed a player ranking system (Weighted WAR) based on the results. The modifications were discussed in conjunction with the releases of the Weighted WAR rankings at specific positions, as follows:

Peak weighting (introduction)

Schedule length (3B)

Positional classification (LF)

Timeline adjustment for minor league control and segregation (SS)

Timeline adjustment for expansion (2B)

Negative seasons (CF)

Negro League seasons (C)

Pitching value (1B/DH)

Uncounted factors (RF)

(Not all of these topics are actually adjustments. The positional classification piece merely clarifies how I prefer to break down players between positional lists, while pitching value and “uncounted factors” review things that are, well, uncounted in the Weighted WAR system.)

It’s been a year since these posts went up, and that means we have another baseball season to account for. As such, let’s go through the positional top 100 lists again – not in full, but through the lens of players who were active in 2025.