Lou Gehrig Runs Created

Lou Gehrig Career Runs Created Overview

During Lou Gehrig's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 2207.87 runs created, an average of 129.96 runs created per season. 1927 was his best season with 190.17 runs created and his worst season was 1939 when he had 0.89 runs created. Lou Gehrig outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (317.926), Y (1407.92), mlb (314.928), and 1B (432.826) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Runs created (RC) is a metric that helps estimate the number of runs a player contributes to their team. The calculation is complex but attempts to weight and combine different values to create a more accurate number of contributed runs. Generally, for Runs Created, higher is better. (Source)

Lou Gehrig Lifetime Runs Created

Stats similar to Runs Created for Lou Gehrig

	Lou Gehrig Runs Created
Career	2207.87
Season Avg.	129.96
162 Game Avg.	165.28
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Lou Gehrig Runs Created By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Lou Gehrig's yearly Runs Created 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 Runs Created by Year

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

Lou Gehrig Runs Created By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Lou Gehrig and related player groups by summarizing Runs Created 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 Runs Created Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Lou Gehrig Runs Created 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.