Over the course of his career,
Ed Sprague
made 4,587 plate appearances.
Sprague
was worth
5.7 Wins Above Replacement
and -10.0 Wins Above Average.
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 5.7 WAR becomes
5.6 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 -10.0 WAA becomes 1.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Sprague 7.4 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).
Ed Sprague has a Hall Rating of
7,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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