Over the course of his career,
Red Smith
made 4,518 plate appearances.
Smith
was worth
27.1 Wins Above Replacement
and 12.5 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 27.1 WAR becomes
28.1 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 12.5 WAA becomes 13.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Smith 51.7 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).
Red Smith has a Hall Rating of
49,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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