Over the course of his career,
Bunny Downs
made 539 plate appearances
and pitched 3 innings.
Downs
was worth
-0.8 Wins Above Replacement
(-0.5 as a hitter and -0.4 as a pitcher)
and -2.7 Wins Above Average
(-2.2 as a hitter and -0.4 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the -0.8 WAR becomes
-2.3 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 -2.7 WAA becomes 0.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Downs -2.1 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).
Bunny Downs has a Hall Rating of
-2,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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