Over the course of his career,
Rube Benton
pitched 2,517 innings
and made 889 plate appearances.
Benton
was worth
15.7 Wins Above Replacement
(18.0 as a pitcher and -2.1 as a hitter)
and -3.2 Wins Above Average
(-1.1 as a pitcher and -2.1 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 15.7 WAR becomes
16.9 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 -3.2 WAA becomes 5.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Benton 26.3 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).
Rube Benton has a Hall Rating of
25,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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