How Cliff Melton's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players

Cliff Melton posted a career Games Started % of 65.81, well above the starting pitcher average of .674 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 1938, posting 86.11, well above the starting pitcher average of .586 that year. The lowest point came in 1941 at 52.38, well above the starting pitcher average of .611 that year. The Games Started % trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from 73.91 in 1942 to 82.35 in 1943 and 76.92 in 1944. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average remained well above league norms across 8 seasons.

Cliff Melton Lifetime Games Started %

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Cliff Melton
Games Started %
Career65.81
Season Avg.65.81
162 Game Avg.65.81
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Cliff Melton Games Started % Per Season

Cliff Melton's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cliff Melton Games Started % per season line chart

Cliff Melton Games Started % by Team

Cliff Melton's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Cliff Melton career Games Started % by team bar chart

Cliff Melton Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Cliff Melton's career Games Started % shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Cliff Melton Games Started % year-over-year waterfall chart

Cliff Melton Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Cliff Melton's seasonal Games Started % alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Cliff Melton Games Started % distribution box chart versus comparable players

Cliff Melton Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Cliff Melton's MLB career with Games Started % alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Cliff Melton Games Started % season-by-season breakdown table