Whitey Ford Career Total Average Overview

Whitey Ford's Total Average was 0.378 for his 16-year Major League Baseball career. 1959 was his best season when his Total Average was 0.68 and his worst season was 1966 when his Total Average was 0.053. Whitey Ford is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by SP (0.309042), USA (0.628342), The Greatest Generation (0.624626), Y (0.841924), and mlb (0.626148) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Total average (TA) is a metric that designed to measure a players overall offensive conrtributions. It's calculated by dividing total bases, walks, hit by pitch, and stolen bases by at bats that did not result in a hit, times caught stealing, and times grounded into a double play. Generally, for Total Average, higher is better. (Source)

Whitey Ford Lifetime Total Average

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Whitey Ford Total Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Whitey Ford's yearly Total Average 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.
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Whitey Ford Total Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Whitey Ford's career Total Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Total Average Whitey Ford had at that season in his career.
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Whitey Ford Total Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Whitey Ford and related player groups by summarizing Total Average for each season played by Whitey Ford. 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!
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Whitey Ford Total Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Whitey Ford Total Average 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 Whitey Ford 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.
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