Over the course of his career,
Tris Speaker
made 11,991 plate appearances
and pitched 1 innings.
Speaker was worth 127.7 Wins Above Replacement
(127.8 as a hitter and -0.1 as a pitcher)
and 88.3 Wins Above Average
(88.3 as a hitter and -0.1 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 127.7 WAR becomes
131.8 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 88.3 WAA becomes 89.3 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Speaker 282.7 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).
Tris Speaker has a Hall Rating of 279,
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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