Cap Anson Career Range Factor Overview

Cap Anson's Range Factor was 9.327 for his 27-year Major League Baseball career. 1879 was his best season when his Range Factor was 12.314 and his worst season was 1878 when his Range Factor was 2.175. Cap Anson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (3.63223), Pre-Generational (4.19522), Y (4.21525), mlb (3.60579), and 1B (7.20865) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Range factor is a metric that shows how often a defensive player records an putout or assist per innings played. It is calculated by dividing chances accepted by innings played by a player or team over a given period of time Generally, for Range Factor, higher is better. (Source)

Cap Anson Lifetime Range Factor

Stats similar to Range Factor for Cap Anson
Cap Anson
Range Factor
Career9.327
Season Avg.9.327
162 Game Avg.9.327
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Cap Anson Range Factor By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cap Anson's yearly Range Factor for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Cap Anson Range Factor By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Cap Anson's career Range Factor changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Range Factor Cap Anson had at that season in his career.
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Cap Anson Range Factor By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cap Anson and related player groups by summarizing Range Factor for each season played by Cap Anson. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!
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Cap Anson Range Factor Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cap Anson Range Factor stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Cap Anson career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.
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