Lou Gehrig Assists

Lou Gehrig Career Assists Overview

During Lou Gehrig's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 1087 assists, an average of 63.94 assists per season. 1938 was his best season with 100 assists and his worst season was 1924 when he had 1 assists. Lou Gehrig is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (513.115), The Greatest Generation (787), mlb (532.574), 1B (396.118), and Y (2300.74) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Assists are awarded to defensive players when they have touched the ball, intentionally or unintentionally, after it's been put into play and the play results in one or more putouts. Generally, for Assists, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Assists

Stats similar to Assists for Lou Gehrig

	Lou Gehrig Assists
Career	1087
Season Avg.	63.94
162 Game Avg.	82.02
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Lou Gehrig Assists By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Assists for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Lou Gehrig Cumulative Assists by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Lou Gehrig's career Assists progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Lou Gehrig's career Assists at the end of that season.

Lou Gehrig Assists By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Assists for each season played by Lou Gehrig. 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!

Lou Gehrig Assists Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Assists 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, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Lou Gehrig 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.