Over the course of his career,
Ralph Birkofer
pitched 544 innings
and made 214 plate appearances.
Birkofer
was worth
3.5 Wins Above Replacement
(2.7 as a pitcher and 0.8 as a hitter)
and -0.9 Wins Above Average
(-1.8 as a pitcher and 0.8 as a hitter).
After adjusting for length of schedule, catchers, and relief pitchers, the 3.5 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 -0.9 WAA becomes 1.0 adjWAA.
Then, the adjWAR and adjWAA are combined, but with extra weighting given to adjWAA.
This gives Birkofer 5.4 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).
Ralph Birkofer has a Hall Rating of
5,
leaving him nowhere close to induction to the Hall of Stats.
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