Over the course of his career,
Warren Spahn
pitched 5,243 innings
and made 2,056 plate appearances.
Spahn was worth 93.5 Wins Above Replacement
(86.0 as a pitcher and 7.5 as a hitter)
and 48.6 Wins Above Average
(41.1 as a pitcher and 7.5 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 93.5 WAR becomes
95.1 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 48.6 WAA becomes 47.5 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Spahn 175.5 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).
Warren Spahn has a Hall Rating of 173,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats.
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