Over the course of his career,
Rollie Fingers
pitched 1,701 innings
and made 201 plate appearances.
Fingers was worth 24.0 Wins Above Replacement
(23.3 as a pitcher and 0.7 as a hitter)
and 7.6 Wins Above Average
(7.0 as a pitcher and 0.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 24.0 WAR becomes
30.9 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 7.6 WAA becomes 13.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Fingers 53.0 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).
Rollie Fingers has a Hall Rating of 52,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
Want even more detail about the formula? See the
About page.
