Bob Gibson Career Complete Games Overview

During Bob Gibson's 17-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 255 complete games, an average of 15 complete games per season. 1968 was his best season with 28 complete games and his worst season was 1975 when he had 1 complete games. Bob Gibson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (19.596008131584), The Silent Generation (23.733333333333), Y (221.08333333333), mlb (17.687351214093), and SP (29.957662492546) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Complete games are credited to a pitcher when he is on the mound for all outs in a baseball game. Typically this is 27 outs but if the game goes into extra innings the number of innings could be higher. Generally, for Complete Games, higher is better. (Source)

Bob Gibson Lifetime Complete Games

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Bob Gibson
Complete Games
Career255
Season Avg.15
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Bob Gibson Complete Games By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Bob Gibson's yearly Complete Games 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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Bob Gibson Cumulative Complete Games by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Bob Gibson's career Complete Games progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Bob Gibson's career Complete Games at the end of that season.
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Bob Gibson Complete Games By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Bob Gibson and related player groups by summarizing Complete Games for each season played by Bob Gibson. 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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Bob Gibson Complete Games Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Bob Gibson Complete Games 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 Bob Gibson 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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