Over the course of his career,
Happy Townsend
pitched 1,137 innings
and made 458 plate appearances.
Townsend
was worth
0.1 Wins Above Replacement
(1.0 as a pitcher and -0.9 as a hitter)
and -10.1 Wins Above Average
(-9.1 as a pitcher and -0.9 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 0.1 WAR becomes
0.0 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 -10.1 WAA becomes 0.3 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Townsend 0.5 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).
Happy Townsend has a Hall Rating of
1,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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