Mel Ott Errors

Mel Ott Career Errors Overview

During Mel Ott's 21-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 146 errors, an average of 6.95 errors per season. 1946 was his best season with 0 errors and his worst season was 1938 when he had 15 errors. Mel Ott is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (48.6987), The Greatest Generation (69.0343), mlb (47.2191), RF (30.3574), and Y (228.282) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Errors are charged to defensive players when they make a mistake leading to a runner getting on base or a runner advancing further than they should not have given the circustances. Dropping a fly ball and errant throws are examples of errors since these are expected to be reasonably acheivable. Generally, for Errors, lower is better. (Source)

Mel Ott Lifetime Errors

Stats similar to Errors for Mel Ott

	Mel Ott Errors
Career	146
Season Avg.	6.95
162 Game Avg.	9.19
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Mel Ott Errors By Year Line Chart

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

Mel Ott Cumulative Errors by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Mel Ott's career Errors progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Mel Ott's career Errors at the end of that season.

Mel Ott Errors By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Mel Ott and related player groups by summarizing Errors for each season played by Mel Ott. 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!

Mel Ott Errors Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Mel Ott Errors 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Mel Ott 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.