Babe Ruth Total Chances

Babe Ruth Career Total Chances Overview

During Babe Ruth's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 5535 total chances, an average of 251.59 total chances per season. 1923 was his best season with 452 total chances and his worst season was 1914 when he had 7 total chances. Babe Ruth is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (2093.96), The Lost Generation (2719.51), mlb (2061.62), RF (1271.99), and Y (8643.37) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Total chances are the number of defensive plays the player or team has participated in. It's calcuated by summing putouts, assists, and errors for a player or team over a given time period. Generally, for Total Chances, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Total Chances

Stats similar to Total Chances for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth Total Chances
Career	5535
Season Avg.	251.59
162 Game Avg.	368.09
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Babe Ruth Total Chances By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Total Chances 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.

Babe Ruth Cumulative Total Chances by Year

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

Babe Ruth Total Chances By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Total Chances 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!

Babe Ruth Total Chances Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth Total Chances 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.