Nellie Fox Career Chances Accepted Overview

During Nellie Fox's 19-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 12487 chances accepted, an average of 657.21 chances accepted per season. 1957 was his best season with 906 chances accepted and his worst season was 1947 when he had 1 chances accepted. Nellie Fox outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (2045.26), The Greatest Generation (3165.66), Y (8415.09), mlb (2014.4), and 2B (2387.42) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Chances accepted are the number of defensive plays a player or team has particpated in that resulted in either an assist or putout. It is calcuated by summing assists and putouts for a player or team over a given time period. Generally, for Chances Accepted, higher is better. (Source)

Nellie Fox Lifetime Chances Accepted

Stats similar to Chances Accepted for Nellie Fox
Nellie Fox
Chances Accepted
Career12487
Season Avg.657.21
162 Game Avg.878.37
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Nellie Fox Chances Accepted By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Nellie Fox's yearly Chances Accepted for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 2B, 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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Nellie Fox Cumulative Chances Accepted by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Nellie Fox's career Chances Accepted progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Nellie Fox's career Chances Accepted at the end of that season.
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Nellie Fox Chances Accepted By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Nellie Fox and related player groups by summarizing Chances Accepted for each season played by Nellie Fox. 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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Nellie Fox Chances Accepted Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Nellie Fox Chances Accepted 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, 2B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Nellie Fox 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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