Over the course of his career,
Buttons Briggs
pitched 855 innings
and made 360 plate appearances.
Briggs
was worth
5.7 Wins Above Replacement
(7.5 as a pitcher and -1.9 as a hitter)
and -1.5 Wins Above Average
(0.4 as a pitcher and -1.9 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 5.7 WAR becomes
5.7 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 -1.5 WAA becomes 3.3 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Briggs 11.6 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).
Buttons Briggs has a Hall Rating of
11,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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