Rick Dempsey ERA

Rick Dempsey Career ERA Overview

Rick Dempsey's ERA was 4.5 for his 1-year Major League Baseball career. 1991 was his best season when his ERA was 4.5 and his worst season was 1991 when his ERA was 4.5. Rick Dempsey is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by Y (3.0750522047158), C (3.9337748344371), USA (4.3461226399548), Baby Boomers (4.2264623233034), and mlb (4.3614031148122) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (Source)

Rick Dempsey Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

Stats similar to ERA for Rick Dempsey

	Rick Dempsey ERA	Rick Dempsey Component ERA	Rick Dempsey Defense Independent ERA
Career	4.5	6.48	4.5
Season Avg.	4.5	6.48	4.5
162 Game Avg.	4.5	6.48	4.5
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Rick Dempsey ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rick Dempsey's yearly ERA for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, C, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Rick Dempsey ERA By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Rick Dempsey's career ERA changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career ERA Rick Dempsey had at that season in his career.

Rick Dempsey ERA By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Rick Dempsey and related player groups by summarizing ERA for each season played by Rick Dempsey. 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!

Rick Dempsey ERA Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Rick Dempsey ERA 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, C, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rick Dempsey 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.