Over the course of his career,
Cotton Williams
made 226 plate appearances
and pitched 181 innings.
Williams
was worth
0.9 Wins Above Replacement
(0.3 as a hitter and 0.5 as a pitcher)
and -1.0 Wins Above Average
(-0.1 as a hitter and -0.9 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 0.9 WAR becomes
1.5 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 -1.0 WAA becomes 1.6 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Williams 4.4 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).
Cotton Williams has a Hall Rating of
4,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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