Over the course of his career,
Wally Backman
made 3,708 plate appearances.
Backman
was worth
13.2 Wins Above Replacement
and 0.8 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 13.2 WAR becomes
13.4 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 0.8 WAA becomes 5.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Backman 22.4 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).
Wally Backman has a Hall Rating of
21,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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