Over the course of his career,
Sammy Sosa
made 9,896 plate appearances.
Sosa was worth 54.8 Wins Above Replacement
and 28.1 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 54.8 WAR becomes
55.8 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 28.1 WAA becomes 36.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Sosa 116.6 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).
Sammy Sosa has a Hall Rating of 115,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats.
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