Over the course of his career,
Lou Gehrig
made 9,663 plate appearances.
Gehrig was worth 108.5 Wins Above Replacement
and 78.4 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 108.5 WAR becomes
111.3 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 78.4 WAA becomes 78.7 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Gehrig 244.3 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).
Lou Gehrig has a Hall Rating of 241,
making him not only a member of the Hall of Stats—but one of the very best players of all time.
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