OK....it's getting WORSE. :-)
Their basic numbers are still quite similar, but Victor is PULLING AWAY in Win Shares.
Previous (as of 6/28):
Victor: 13.5 batting WS, 17 total
Jorge: 7.3 batting WS, 10 total (note correction from above)
Now (as of 7/8):
Victor: 16.1 batting WS, 20 total
Jorge: 7.5 batting WS, 11 total
Victor's batting WS increased 2.6 during this week and a half. (Which is UNREAL.)
Jorge's barely budged.
OK, it's finally narrowing. Previous (as of 7/8): Victor: 16.1 batting WS, 20 total Jorge: 7.5 batting WS, 11 total Current (as of 7/28): Victor: 17.3 batting WS, 22 total Jorge: 10.7 batting WS, 15 total It's because the Yanks finally won some games, and since just a few Yankee players (including Jorge) have been major contributors, they get a disproportionate share of the WS.
......and now it's narrowed to where it's almost normal. I think this might be my first prediction that ever turned out true. :-) Previous (as of 7/28): Victor: 17.3 batting WS, 22 total Jorge: 10.7 batting WS, 15 total Current (as of 8/3): Victor: 16.2 batting WS, 21 total Jorge: 12.9 batting WS, 17 total You might wonder how Victor's could have DECREASED. I'm pretty sure I understand how that could be (and IMHO it's NOT a valid thing), but I won't get into it unless someone asks.....
I'm guessing it's because Cleveland has lost 5 of their last 7 games?
That would explain why a Cleveland player's win shares HAVEN'T INCREASED MUCH. But not at all why they would have DECREASED. (Right?) I think the way a guy's WS could DECREASE would be......well, I think 2 things would be needed: (a) That the team won just a very small number of games in the interim (i.e. what you said), PLUS..... (b) That OTHER GUYS ON THE TEAM piled up nicer numbers in these last few games, with the result that they would get MORE CREDIT RETROACTIVELY for past games won this year.....even though most of these guys' new numbers were in games that the team LOST. I don't know if this "phenomenon" has been discussed before....and I'm not sure it's been formally "discovered" although I imagine it must be obvious to people like Bill James. It points up what we might call a flaw in the WS system: Guys get credit for what they do in the team's LOSSES. If we were to calculate Win Shares in the most logical way, I think we would look only at the games that the team WINS. (Which would be harder.) Among the advantages would be that aberrations like THIS would be less common, although I think they'd still be possible.
The way to avoid such aberrations COMPLETELY, and theoretically I think the BEST way to do Win Shares, would be to calculate them FOR EACH GAME INDEPENDENTLY and then add the individual-game totals for each player. This way, there would only be shares for games that the team won, and also, stats achieved in one game would not affect numbers of shares awarded for other games. Of course this would be hard as heil to do........
Previous (as of 8/3): Victor: 16.2 batting WS, 21 total Jorge: 12.9 batting WS, 17 total Current (as of 8/10): Victor: 16.5 batting WS, 22 total Jorge: 13.3 batting WS, 18 total Interestingly....Victor's "batting" Win Shares are still lower than 2 weeks ago. I say that the occurrence of such a thing shows a flaw of the WS system (as per earlier post).