Over the course of his career,
Bill Merritt
made 1,556 plate appearances.
Merritt
was worth
1.9 Wins Above Replacement
and -3.5 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 1.9 WAR becomes
2.5 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 -3.5 WAA becomes 0.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Merritt 3.9 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).
Bill Merritt has a Hall Rating of
4,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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