Nolan Ryan Career Equivalent Average Overview

Nolan Ryan's Equivalent Average was 0.349 for his 27-year Major League Baseball career. 1981 was his best season when his Equivalent Average was 0.575 and his worst season was 1966 when his Equivalent Average was 0. Nolan Ryan underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (0.707963), Baby Boomers (0.698758), Y (0.848603), mlb (0.707081), and SP (0.462765) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Equivilent Average (EQA) is intended to be park and league indifferent expression of a player's hitting production. Generally, for Equivalent Average, higher is better. (Source)

Nolan Ryan Lifetime Equivalent Average

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Nolan Ryan Equivalent Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Nolan Ryan's yearly Equivalent Average 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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Nolan Ryan Equivalent Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Nolan Ryan's career Equivalent Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Equivalent Average Nolan Ryan had at that season in his career.
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Nolan Ryan Equivalent Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Nolan Ryan and related player groups by summarizing Equivalent Average for each season played by Nolan Ryan. 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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Nolan Ryan Equivalent Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Nolan Ryan Equivalent Average 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 Nolan Ryan 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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