Over the course of his career,
Joe Niekro
pitched 3,584 innings
and made 1,165 plate appearances.
Niekro
was worth
29.7 Wins Above Replacement
(28.7 as a pitcher and 1.0 as a hitter)
and -1.6 Wins Above Average
(-2.5 as a pitcher and 1.0 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 29.7 WAR becomes
31.7 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 -1.6 WAA becomes 9.9 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Niekro 49.5 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).
Joe Niekro has a Hall Rating of
47,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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