Over the course of his career,
Willie McCovey
made 9,692 plate appearances.
McCovey was worth 60.7 Wins Above Replacement
and 30.4 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 60.7 WAR becomes
60.9 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 30.4 WAA becomes 38.9 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives McCovey 126.6 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).
Willie McCovey has a Hall Rating of 125,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats.
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