How Bill Merritt's Total Average Compares to Similar Players

Bill Merritt posted a career Total Average of .592, below the league average of .673 — a level that fell short of typical league production. His best Total Average season came in 1893, posting .935, above the league average of .820 that year. The lowest point came in 1891 at .364, well below the league average of .739 that year. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from .595 in 1896 to .507 in 1897 and .500 in 1899. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Total Average profile — ranging from .364 to .935 — though the career average fell below league norms.

Bill Merritt Lifetime Total Average

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Bill Merritt Total Average Per Season

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

Bill Merritt Total Average by Team

Bill Merritt's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Bill Merritt career Total Average by team bar chart

Bill Merritt Total Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Bill Merritt's career Total Average 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.
Bill Merritt Total Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Bill Merritt Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Bill Merritt's seasonal Total Average 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.
Bill Merritt Total Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Bill Merritt Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Bill Merritt's MLB career with Total Average 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.
Bill Merritt Total Average season-by-season breakdown table