Nolan Ryan Career WHIP Overview

Nolan Ryan's WHIP was 1.247 for his 27-year Major League Baseball career. 1991 was his best season when his WHIP was 1.006 and his worst season was 1966 when his WHIP was 2.667. Nolan Ryan is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (1.4430748912239), Baby Boomers (1.4299997529918), mlb (1.4393517854305), SP (1.4293379375862), and Y (1.2092873968723) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Walks and hits per innings pitched (WHIP) is a metric that shows how often, on average, hitters get on base per inning against a pitcher. It is calcuated by summing hits and walks for a give time period then dividing by the number of innings during that time period. Generally, for WHIP, lower is better. (Source)

Nolan Ryan Lifetime WHIP

Stats similar to WHIP for Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan
WHIP
Career1.247
Season Avg.1.305
162 Game Avg.1.247
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Nolan Ryan WHIP By Year Line Chart

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

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Nolan Ryan and related player groups by summarizing WHIP 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 WHIP Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Nolan Ryan WHIP 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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