Over the course of his career,
Eddie Mathews
made 10,100 plate appearances.
Mathews
was worth
96.1 Wins Above Replacement
and 58.3 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 96.1 WAR becomes
98.1 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 58.3 WAA becomes 58.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Mathews 203.2 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).
Eddie Mathews has a Hall Rating of
189,
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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