Over the course of his career,
Burleigh Grimes
pitched 4,177 innings
and made 1,686 plate appearances.
Grimes was worth 50.2 Wins Above Replacement
(44.2 as a pitcher and 6.0 as a hitter)
and 20.3 Wins Above Average
(14.2 as a pitcher and 6.1 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 50.2 WAR becomes
52.1 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 20.3 WAA becomes 26.6 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Grimes 97.1 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).
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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