Over the course of his career,
Tom Gordon
pitched 2,108 innings
and made 2 plate appearances.
Gordon
was worth
35.0 Wins Above Replacement
(35.0 as a pitcher and -0.1 as a hitter)
and 13.9 Wins Above Average
(13.7 as a pitcher and -0.1 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 35.0 WAR becomes
40.7 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 13.9 WAA becomes 18.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Gordon 74.5 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).
Tom Gordon has a Hall Rating of
70,
leaving him short of induction to the Hall of Stats.
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