Over the course of his career,
Chief Bender
pitched 3,017 innings
and made 1,274 plate appearances.
Bender was worth 46.6 Wins Above Replacement
(40.8 as a pitcher and 5.8 as a hitter)
and 23.4 Wins Above Average
(17.8 as a pitcher and 5.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 46.6 WAR becomes
48.6 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 23.4 WAA becomes 25.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Bender 91.1 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).
Chief Bender has a Hall Rating of 90,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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