Cap Anson Career Total Average Overview

Cap Anson's Total Average was 0.857 for his 27-year Major League Baseball career. 1894 was his best season when his Total Average was 1.171 and his worst season was 1879 when his Total Average was 0.619. Cap Anson is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (0.628342), Pre-Generational (0.605946), mlb (0.626148), 1B (0.681475), and Y (0.841924) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Total average (TA) is a metric that designed to measure a players overall offensive conrtributions. It's calculated by dividing total bases, walks, hit by pitch, and stolen bases by at bats that did not result in a hit, times caught stealing, and times grounded into a double play. Generally, for Total Average, higher is better. (Source)

Cap Anson Lifetime Total Average

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Cap Anson
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Career0.857
Season Avg.0.842
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Cap Anson Total Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cap Anson's yearly Total Average 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 Total Average By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cap Anson and related player groups by summarizing Total Average 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 Total Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cap Anson Total Average 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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