Over the course of his career,
Joe Sparks
made 378 plate appearances
and pitched 2 innings.
Sparks
was worth
-0.2 Wins Above Replacement
(0.1 as a hitter and -0.2 as a pitcher)
and -1.4 Wins Above Average
(-1.1 as a hitter and -0.3 as a pitcher).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the -0.2 WAR becomes
0.5 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 -1.4 WAA becomes 0.1 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Sparks 0.7 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 Sparks has a Hall Rating of
1,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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