Over the course of his career,
Herb Pennock
pitched 3,571 innings
and made 1,414 plate appearances.
Pennock was worth 39.8 Wins Above Replacement
(38.8 as a pitcher and 1.0 as a hitter)
and 10.5 Wins Above Average
(9.6 as a pitcher and 0.9 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 39.8 WAR becomes
41.5 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 10.5 WAA becomes 22.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Pennock 79.0 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).
Herb Pennock has a Hall Rating of 78,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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