Over the course of his career,
Babe Ruth
made 10,620 plate appearances
and pitched 1,222 innings.
Ruth was worth 178.3 Wins Above Replacement
(159.2 as a hitter and 19.1 as a pitcher)
and 136.3 Wins Above Average
(127.0 as a hitter and 9.2 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 178.3 WAR becomes
184.3 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 136.3 WAA becomes 132.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Ruth 407.8 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).
Babe Ruth has a Hall Rating of 402,
making him not only a member of the Hall of Stats—but the very best player of all time.
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