Over the course of his career,
Burleigh Grimes
pitched 4,175 innings
and made 1,686 plate appearances.
Grimes
was worth
52.8 Wins Above Replacement
(46.9 as a pitcher and 6.0 as a hitter)
and 20.2 Wins Above Average
(14.2 as a pitcher and 6.0 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 52.8 WAR becomes
55.1 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 20.2 WAA becomes 27.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Grimes 103.3 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).
Burleigh Grimes has a Hall Rating of
96,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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