How Ozzie Smith's Games Started % Compares to Similar Players
Ozzie Smith posted a career Games Started % of 98.65, well above the league average of .644 — a mark that ranked among the best of his era. His best Games Started % season came in 1981, posting 100.0, well above the league average of .752 that year. The lowest point came in 1996 at 96.15, well above the league average of .710 that year, a partial season. Production slipped through the final seasons. The figure moved from 97.76 in 1993 to 100.0 in 1995 and 96.15 in 1996. The decline marked the closing chapter of the career. One of the more consistent Games Started % producers of his era, the career line shows well-above-average output with little season-to-season variance across 18 seasons.
Ozzie Smith Lifetime Games Started %
Stats similar to Games Started % for Ozzie Smith
| Ozzie Smith
Games Started % |
|---|
| Career | 98.65 |
| Season Avg. | 98.65 |
| 162 Game Avg. | 98.65 |
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Ozzie Smith Games Started % Per Season
Ozzie Smith's Games Started % for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SS, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Ozzie Smith Games Started % by Team
Ozzie Smith's career Games Started % totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Ozzie Smith Games Started % Year-Over-Year Change
A waterfall chart tracking how Ozzie Smith's career Games Started % 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.
Ozzie Smith Games Started % Distribution vs. Comparable Players
Each box summarizes Ozzie Smith's seasonal Games Started % 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.
Ozzie Smith Games Started % — Season-by-Season Breakdown
Every season of Ozzie Smith's MLB career with Games Started % 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.
