Willie Mays Total Chances

Willie Mays Career Total Chances Overview

During Willie Mays's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 8141 total chances, an average of 370.05 total chances per season. 1971 was his best season with 622 total chances and his worst season was 1952 when he had 116 total chances. Willie Mays is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2093.96), The Silent Generation (2295.19), mlb (2061.62), CF (1463.96), and Y (8643.37) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Total chances are the number of defensive plays the player or team has participated in. It's calcuated by summing putouts, assists, and errors for a player or team over a given time period. Generally, for Total Chances, higher is better. (Source)

Willie Mays Lifetime Total Chances

Stats similar to Total Chances for Willie Mays

	Willie Mays Total Chances
Career	8141
Season Avg.	370.05
162 Game Avg.	450.27
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Willie Mays Total Chances By Year Line Chart

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

Willie Mays Cumulative Total Chances by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Willie Mays's career Total Chances progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Willie Mays's career Total Chances at the end of that season.

Willie Mays Total Chances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Willie Mays and related player groups by summarizing Total Chances for each season played by Willie Mays. 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!

Willie Mays Total Chances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Willie Mays Total Chances 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Willie Mays 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.