How Ernie Banks's Total Average Compares to Similar Players
Ernie Banks posted a career Total Average of .785, above the league average of .673 — production that kept him consistently ahead of most peers. His best Total Average season came in 1953, posting 1.0, well above the league average of .692 that year. The lowest point came in 1971 at .485, well below the league average of .629 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .650 in 1969 to .719 in 1970 and .485 in 1971. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained above league norms across 19 seasons.
Ernie Banks Lifetime Total Average
Stats similar to Total Average for Ernie Banks
| Ernie Banks
Total Average |
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| Career | 0.785 |
| Season Avg. | 0.785 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.785 |
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Ernie Banks Total Average Per Season
Ernie Banks'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.
Ernie Banks Total Average by Team
Ernie Banks's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Ernie Banks Total Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Ernie Banks'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.
Ernie Banks Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Ernie Banks'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.
Ernie Banks Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Ernie Banks'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.
