Over the course of his career,
Blondie Purcell
made 4,875 plate appearances
and pitched 581 innings.
Purcell
was worth
2.0 Wins Above Replacement
(5.2 as a hitter and -3.2 as a pitcher)
and -15.9 Wins Above Average
(-7.6 as a hitter and -8.0 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 2.0 WAR becomes
3.6 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 -15.9 WAA becomes 0.8 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Purcell 5.0 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).
Blondie Purcell has a Hall Rating of
5,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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