Over the course of his career,
Ben McDonald
pitched 1,291 innings
and made 1 plate appearances.
McDonald
was worth
20.9 Wins Above Replacement
(20.8 as a pitcher and 0.0 as a hitter)
and 8.5 Wins Above Average
(8.5 as a pitcher and 0.0 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 20.9 WAR becomes
22.2 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 8.5 WAA becomes 10.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives McDonald 40.4 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).
Ben McDonald has a Hall Rating of
38,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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