Over the course of his career,
Bobo Newsom
pitched 3,759 innings
and made 1,441 plate appearances.
Newsom
was worth
48.1 Wins Above Replacement
(51.7 as a pitcher and -3.6 as a hitter)
and 16.4 Wins Above Average
(20.0 as a pitcher and -3.6 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 48.1 WAR becomes
49.5 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 16.4 WAA becomes 27.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Newsom 99.1 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).
Bobo Newsom has a Hall Rating of
93,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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