Over the course of his career,
Gary Sheffield
made 10,947 plate appearances.
Sheffield was worth 56.0 Wins Above Replacement
and 25.9 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 56.0 WAR becomes
56.5 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 25.9 WAA becomes 34.9 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Sheffield 115.4 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).
Gary Sheffield has a Hall Rating of 114,
meaning he will be in the Hall of Stats when eligible.
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