He’s the engineer who has brought you a whole bunch of post-launch features. Recently, he gave us franchise pages. Well, shortly after launching the franchise pages, he was like… “These pages could use some charts.” So here you go:
There are two charts on each (current) franchise’s page:
A timeline of the 20 greatest players in franchise history. In the Orioles example above, it’s fun to play the “Guess when Earl Weaver managed” game. The 20 players are chosen by their Hall Rating with the team, but the graph itself shows single season WAR.
A timeline of the WAR provided by all members of the team, year-by-year.
Curious to know what you think (and perhaps where you think we could use some more charts!). Thanks Michael!
Mar 13, 2013
by Adam Darowski
That’s Eddie Collins. Photo Credit
Now that we show franchise contributions on each player page, I’ve noticed a couple players who actually had multiple Hall-worthy careers (Hall Rating > 100) with different franchises. Today, let’s look a those players as well as some others who had large contributions with multiple teams.
100 Hall Rating with Multiple Teams
Four players reached a Hall Rating of 100 with more than one team.
Barry Bonds: Bonds was a Hall of Famer before he even left Pittsburgh with a 109 Hall Rating. After that, he added a Hall Rating of 256 with San Francisco.
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I love talking about baseball history and the Hall of Fame. One of the greatest sports debates is whether or not a player should be in the Hall of Fame. And that’s the great debate that the Hall of Stats was founded on.
Mar 1, 2013
by Adam Darowski
That’s Jim O’Rourke. Photo Credit
In the first four parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4), I finalized the pitchers, catchers, and infielders in my Personal Hall of Fame. 41 outfielders have already been named and I have twenty more to debate.
Let’s get into it…
Left Fielders
For some reason, there are a ton of left fielders I’m undecided on.
Feb 22, 2013
by Adam Darowski
That’s John McGraw. Photo Credit
So far in this series (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) I named 184 players to my Personal Hall of Fame and started chipping away at my “maybe” list. Time to finalize my infield.
Feb 19, 2013
by Adam Darowski
That’s Roger Bresnahan. Photo Credit
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I laid the groundwork for my Personal Hall of Fame, made my initial commitments, and made a list of players to debate. Now it’s time to finalize.
Pitchers
Here are the pitchers who remain on my “maybe” list. I actually added one since last time—Noodles Hahn. He deserves to at least be in the discussion.
Feb 16, 2013
by Adam Darowski
That’s Wes Ferrell. Photo Credit
In Part 1 of this series, I started the process of building a Personal Hall of Fame.
The “personal Hall of Fame” is a simple concept—what would the Hall of Fame look like if you were able to start from scratch and populate it however you want?
One might think the Hall of Stats is my personal Hall. It’s close—but it’s not. There are players that the Hall of Stats removes that I don’t agree with. There are also several players in the Hall of Stats that I wouldn’t put in the Hall of Fame.
Feb 14, 2013
by Adam Darowski
That’s Sherry Magee. Photo Credit
More and more often, I’m asked about my “personal Hall of Fame”. The “personal Hall of Fame” is a simple concept—what would the Hall of Fame look like if you were able to start from scratch and populate it however you want?
One might think the Hall of Stats is my personal Hall. It’s close—but it’s not. There are players that the Hall of Stats removes that I don’t agree with. There are also several players in the Hall of Stats that I wouldn’t put in the Hall of Fame.
For that reason, I've officially sent a presentation abstract for SABR 43 in Philadelphia this summer. Below, you can read my abstract (I used 499 of my 500 words).
Title: The Hall of Stats: An alternate Hall of Fame populated by a mathematical formula.
The Hall of Stats was conceived because the Hall of Fame voting process has become a political nightmare. A massive backlog of worthy candidates is piling up—some because of association with PEDs (or simply suspicion), but some because voters just don’t realize how good they were. There seems to be a false perception of what the Hall of Fame actually is. It’s not all Ruth, Mathewson, Cobb, and Wagner. For every Walter Johnson in the Hall of Fame there’s a Jesse Haines. For every Henry Aaron there’s a Tommy McCarthy.
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