Over the course of his career,
Willie Mays
made 12,544 plate appearances.
Mays
was worth
156.1 Wins Above Replacement
and 109.9 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 156.1 WAR becomes
158.1 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 109.9 WAA becomes 110.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Mays 357.5 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).
Willie Mays has a Hall Rating of
335,
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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