Over the course of his career,
Ernie Lombardi
made 6,351 plate appearances.
Lombardi was worth 43.6 Wins Above Replacement
and 24.4 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 43.6 WAR becomes
52.3 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 24.4 WAA becomes 28.6 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Lombardi 100.6 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).
Ernie Lombardi has a Hall Rating of 99,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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