Babe Ruth Career Chances Accepted Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 5356 chances accepted, an average of 243.45 chances accepted per season. 1923 was his best season with 440 chances accepted and his worst season was 1914 when he had 7 chances accepted. Babe Ruth is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2045.26), The Lost Generation (2621.96), mlb (2014.4), RF (1241.63), 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)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Chances Accepted

Stats similar to Chances Accepted for Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
Chances Accepted
Career5356
Season Avg.243.45
162 Game Avg.356.19
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Babe Ruth Chances Accepted By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth'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, RF, 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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Babe Ruth Cumulative Chances Accepted by Year

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

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

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