Lou Gehrig Career Equivalent Average Overview

Lou Gehrig's Equivalent Average was 1.053 for his 17-year Major League Baseball career. 1923 was his best season when his Equivalent Average was 1.207 and his worst season was 1939 when his Equivalent Average was 0.47. Lou Gehrig outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.707963), The Greatest Generation (0.709552), Y (0.848603), mlb (0.707081), and 1B (0.746941) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Equivilent Average (EQA) is intended to be park and league indifferent expression of a player's hitting production. Generally, for Equivalent Average, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Equivalent Average

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Lou Gehrig
Equivalent Average
Career1.053
Season Avg.1.03
162 Game Avg.1.053
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Lou Gehrig Equivalent Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Equivalent Average 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.
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Lou Gehrig Equivalent Average By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Equivalent Average 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!
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Lou Gehrig Equivalent Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Equivalent 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, 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.
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