Over the course of his career,
Wild Bill Widner
pitched 522 innings
and made 247 plate appearances.
Widner
was worth
-1.5 Wins Above Replacement
(-1.1 as a pitcher and -0.4 as a hitter)
and -4.6 Wins Above Average
(-4.2 as a pitcher and -0.4 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the -1.5 WAR becomes
-1.4 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 -4.6 WAA becomes 0.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Widner -1.4 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).
Wild Bill Widner has a Hall Rating of
-1,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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