Don Drysdale Defense Independent ERA

Don Drysdale Career Defense Independent ERA Overview

Don Drysdale's Defense Independent ERA was 3.49 for his 14-year Major League Baseball career. 1964 was his best season when his Defense Independent ERA was 2.86 and his worst season was 1969 when his Defense Independent ERA was 4.82. Don Drysdale is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (4.3694231300752), The Silent Generation (4.421699890584), mlb (4.3724584201696), SP (4.3793575025473), and Y (3.5049298772076) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Defense-Independent Component ERA (dERA) is a tweak on component ERA, a metric used to forcast the ERA based upon other pitching statistics. Defense-Independent Component ERA removes a pitcher defensive statistics and focuses only on their pitching statistics. Generally, for Defense Independent ERA, lower is better. (Source)

Don Drysdale Lifetime Defense Independent ERA

Stats similar to Defense Independent ERA for Don Drysdale

	Don Drysdale Defense Independent ERA
Career	3.49
Season Avg.	3.63
162 Game Avg.	3.49
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Don Drysdale Defense Independent ERA By Year Line Chart

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

Don Drysdale Defense Independent ERA By Year Change

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

Don Drysdale Defense Independent ERA By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Don Drysdale and related player groups by summarizing Defense Independent ERA for each season played by Don Drysdale. 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!

Don Drysdale Defense Independent ERA Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Don Drysdale Defense Independent 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, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Don Drysdale 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.