HOF Analysis: 1B

[usnspecialist]

Shown below is a chart of all of the 1st Basemen enshrined in the BBA HOF, along with their career stats. The green filled box indicates they are above their positional average, the red or white indicates they are below the average.

This chart shows how far away from the average each player is at a given stat. 1.00 is exactly the mean, higher numbers are good, lower numbers are bad. This is not a perfect chart because it gives every stat the exact same weight, which isnt exactly accurate but it gives a decent picture of what we are looking at.

[RonCo]

Interesting to see in this position exactly how consistent the split of "above and below" HoF average are. The first pass cut to note is that all the players "above average" played considerably more games than those below the line. Which is kind of "well duh" but shows clearly here. So ultimately, how much are BBA voters swayed by longevity?

I note that these stats don't do anything to adjust for era, either. So at the end of the day I'm not sure the word "accurate" is quite right here, regardless.