How Vern Bickford's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

Vern Bickford posted a career Games Started % of 81.87, well above the starting pitcher average of .674 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 1954, posting 100.0, well above the starting pitcher average of .603 that year. The lowest point came in 1953 at 45.0, well above the starting pitcher average of .567 that year. The Games Started % trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from 84.62 in 1952 to 45.0 in 1953 and 100.0 in 1954. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 7 seasons.

Vern Bickford Lifetime Games Started %

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Vern Bickford
Games Started %
Career81.87
Season Avg.81.87
162 Game Avg.81.87
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Vern Bickford Games Started % Per Season

Vern Bickford's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Vern Bickford Games Started % per season line chart

Vern Bickford Games Started % by Team

Vern Bickford's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Vern Bickford career Games Started % by team bar chart

Vern Bickford Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Vern Bickford's career Games Started % 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.
Vern Bickford Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

Vern Bickford Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Vern Bickford's seasonal Games Started % 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.
Vern Bickford Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

Vern Bickford Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Vern Bickford's MLB career with Games Started % 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.
Vern Bickford Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table