Over the course of his career,
Lou Boudreau
made 7,025 plate appearances.
Boudreau
was worth
63.6 Wins Above Replacement
and 42.3 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 63.6 WAR becomes
65.2 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 42.3 WAA becomes 42.4 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Boudreau 141.6 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).
Lou Boudreau has a Hall Rating of
133,
making him a member of the Hall of Stats.
Want even more detail about the formula? See the
About page.