Over the course of his career,
Cal Ripken
made 12,883 plate appearances.
Ripken was worth 90.9 Wins Above Replacement
and 53.5 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 90.9 WAR becomes
91.7 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 53.5 WAA becomes 57.6 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Ripken 189.0 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).
Cal Ripken has a Hall Rating of 187,
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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