Over the course of his career,
Luke Appling
made 10,254 plate appearances.
Appling was worth 69.9 Wins Above Replacement
and 41.5 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 69.9 WAR becomes
71.7 adjWAR. Then, WAA is adjusted by ignoring negative seasons
(thus, truly capturing a player’s peak seasons) and making similar adjustments for catchers and relief pitchers.
After these adjustments, the 41.5 WAA becomes 44.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Appling 146.4 wWAR. wWAR is then converted to Hall Rating.
A Hall Rating of 100 represents the Hall of Stats borderline (similar to OPS+ or wRC+, where 100 represents league average).
Luke Appling has a Hall Rating of 144,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats.
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