Survivor Bias-Corrected Aging Curves from MGL

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https://mglbaseball.com/2016/12/21/a-new-method-of-constructing-more-accurate-aging-curves/

 

 

In the second curve, after we correct for survivorship bias, we have a slightly quicker ascension from age 21 to 26, more than eight points per year, a plateau from age 26 to age 27, then a much slower decline at around 3 points per year.

Keep in mind that these curves represent all players from 1977 to 2016. It is likely that aging has changed significantly from era to era due to medical advances, PED use and the like. In fact, if we limit our data to 2003 and later, after the so called steroid era, we get an uncorrected curve that plateaus between ages 24-28 and then declines by an average of 9 points a year from age 28 to 41.