Steve Jones reminds us that when running a window function, there is a default window in place:
What I want to do is compare the passing yards each year with the most current value for that player, showing the plus or minus. This means that for Aaron Rodgers, who threw for 1675 yards in 2017, I’d want to show this for the first few years of his career:
This shows me an easy view of the years where he was better in his career than he is now. Last year was likely a down year because of injury, but we’ll see this year.
In any case, if I run this query using LAST_VALUE() for the final year of his career, I don’t get the right results.
It’s good to keep in mind the full syntax for a window function for just this reason.