Phil Niekro Career Games Finished Overview

During Phil Niekro's 24-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 83 games finished, an average of 3 games finished per season. 1965 was his best season with 21 games finished and his worst season was 1979 when he had 0 games finished. Phil Niekro is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (46.609683977084), The Silent Generation (62.45), mlb (47.436756070465), SP (26.843470483005), and Y (133.29166666667) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Games finished is the number of games where the pitcher is the last pitcher to appear in the game for a team. These days, closers and late releivers would likely have many games finished whereas starters would have few. Generally, for Games Finished, higher is better. (Source)

Phil Niekro Lifetime Games Finished

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Phil Niekro Games Finished By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Phil Niekro's yearly Games Finished 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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Phil Niekro Cumulative Games Finished by Year

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Phil Niekro and related player groups by summarizing Games Finished for each season played by Phil Niekro. 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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Phil Niekro Games Finished Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Phil Niekro Games Finished 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 Phil Niekro 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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