Over the course of his career,
Monte Ward
made 8,114 plate appearances
and pitched 2,469 innings.
Ward was worth 60.8 Wins Above Replacement
(34.8 as a hitter and 26.0 as a pitcher)
and 20.8 Wins Above Average
(12.9 as a hitter and 8.0 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 60.8 WAR becomes
61.9 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 20.8 WAA becomes 20.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Ward 95.9 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).
Monte Ward has a Hall Rating of 95,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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