Dale Murphy Career Chances Accepted Overview

During Dale Murphy's 18-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 6619 chances accepted, an average of 367.72 chances accepted per season. 1978 was his best season with 1325 chances accepted and his worst season was 1993 when he had 17 chances accepted. Dale Murphy is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2045.26), Baby Boomers (2181.47), mlb (2014.4), CF (1433.21), and Y (8415.09) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Chances accepted are the number of defensive plays a player or team has particpated in that resulted in either an assist or putout. It is calcuated by summing assists and putouts for a player or team over a given time period. Generally, for Chances Accepted, higher is better. (Source)

Dale Murphy Lifetime Chances Accepted

Stats similar to Chances Accepted for Dale Murphy
Dale Murphy
Chances Accepted
Career6619
Season Avg.367.72
162 Game Avg.499.43
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Dale Murphy Chances Accepted By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Dale Murphy's yearly Chances Accepted 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.
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Dale Murphy Cumulative Chances Accepted by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Dale Murphy's career Chances Accepted progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Dale Murphy's career Chances Accepted at the end of that season.
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Dale Murphy Chances Accepted By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Dale Murphy and related player groups by summarizing Chances Accepted for each season played by Dale Murphy. 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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Dale Murphy Chances Accepted Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Dale Murphy Chances Accepted 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 Dale Murphy 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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