How Buttons Briggs's Runs Allowed Per Game Compares to Similar Players

Buttons Briggs posted a career Runs Allowed Per Game of 4.5, well above the starting pitcher average of 2.48 — production that significantly underperformed against league baselines. His strongest Runs Allowed Per Game season came in 1905, posting 2.9, near the starting pitcher average of 3.2 that year. The highest point came in 1897 at 7.55, well above the starting pitcher average of 5.34 that year. The Runs Allowed Per Game trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from 5.5 in 1898 to 3.0 in 1904 and 2.9 in 1905. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Runs Allowed Per Game profile — ranging from 2.9 to 7.55 — though the career average remained well below league norms.

Buttons Briggs Lifetime Runs Allowed Per Game

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Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game Per Season

Buttons Briggs's Runs Allowed Per Game 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.
Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game per season line chart

Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game by Team

Buttons Briggs's career Runs Allowed Per Game totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Buttons Briggs career Runs Allowed Per Game by team bar chart

Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Buttons Briggs's career Runs Allowed Per Game 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.
Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game year-over-year waterfall chart

Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Buttons Briggs's seasonal Runs Allowed Per Game 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.
Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game distribution box chart versus comparable players

Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Buttons Briggs's MLB career with Runs Allowed Per Game 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.
Buttons Briggs Runs Allowed Per Game season-by-season breakdown table