How Jay Payton's Total Average Compares to Similar Players
Jay Payton posted a career Total Average of .670, near the league average of .673 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His best Total Average season came in 2003, posting .807, above the league average of .713 that year. The lowest point came in 2008 at .561, well below the league average of .716 that year. The Total Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .578 in 2007 to .561 in 2008 and .800 in 2010. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 12 seasons.
Jay Payton Lifetime Total Average
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| Career | 0.67 |
| Season Avg. | 0.67 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 0.67 |
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Jay Payton Total Average Per Season
Jay Payton'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, CF, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Jay Payton Total Average by Team
Jay Payton's career Total Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Jay Payton Total Average Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Jay Payton'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.
Jay Payton Total Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Jay Payton'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.
Jay Payton Total Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Jay Payton'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.
