Over the course of his career,
Cool Papa Bell
made 5,405 plate appearances
and pitched 309 innings.
Bell
was worth
35.3 Wins Above Replacement
(31.5 as a hitter and 3.8 as a pitcher)
and 17.7 Wins Above Average
(16.3 as a hitter and 1.2 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 35.3 WAR becomes
57.2 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 17.7 WAA becomes 18.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Bell 91.0 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).
Cool Papa Bell has a Hall Rating of
86,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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