Player name hidden — what year was this?
Guess the Year
Identify the MLB season from a player's stat line · 6 guesses · New puzzle daily
How to Play Guess the Year
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A mystery MLB player's single-season stat line is shown: team, position, and key numbers like batting average, home runs, RBIs, or ERA. The player's name is hidden.
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Using only the stats and team information, guess which year that season took place. Think about the era — what team was that? What were stat levels like in that period?
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After each guess, you'll see whether the actual year is earlier or later than your guess. Use that to close in — you have 6 total attempts.
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Consider baseball eras: the pitcher-dominant 1960s, the power-hitting 1990s, the analytics-driven modern game. Each stat line tells a story about when it happened.
About Guess the Year
Guess the Year combines baseball history knowledge with statistical detective work. Each day, a single-season stat line from a real MLB player is presented — without revealing the player's name or the exact year. Your challenge: figure out which season it was.
Was that .340 batting average from the 1930s, or a modern outlier? Did that 50-home-run season happen in the steroid era or after? The numbers themselves tell a story — if you know your baseball history well enough to read them.
The game rewards fans who understand how baseball has changed across eras: run-scoring in the dead ball era vs. the live ball era, the drop in batting averages after the mound was raised in 1969, the home run explosion of the 1990s, and the shift back toward pitching dominance in recent years.
Free to play with no account required. A new stat line puzzle drops every day.