How Cap Anson's Total Average Compares to Similar Players
Cap Anson posted a career Total Average of .857, well above the league average of .673 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Total Average season came in 1894, posting 1.17, well above the league average of .938 that year. The lowest point came in 1879 at .619, below the league average of .704 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .857 in 1895 to .881 in 1896 and .753 in 1897. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 27 seasons.
Cap Anson Lifetime Total Average
Stats similar to Total Average for Cap Anson
| Cap Anson
Total Average |
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| Career | 0.857 |
| Season Avg. | 0.857 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.857 |
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Cap Anson Total Average Per Season
Cap Anson's Total Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, 1B, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cap Anson Total Average by Team
Cap Anson's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Cap Anson Total Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Cap Anson's career Total Average shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Cap Anson Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Cap Anson's seasonal Total Average alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Cap Anson Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Cap Anson's MLB career with Total Average alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.
Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
