Over the course of his career,
Brian Downing
made 9,309 plate appearances.
Downing
was worth
51.6 Wins Above Replacement
and 21.0 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 51.6 WAR becomes
55.0 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 21.0 WAA becomes 24.2 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Downing 98.6 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).
Brian Downing has a Hall Rating of
93,
making him close to the Hall of Stats borderline—but still on the outside.
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