John Ward ERA

John Ward Career ERA Overview

John Ward's ERA was 2.1 for his 7-year Major League Baseball career. 1878 was his best season when his ERA was 1.51 and his worst season was 1884 when his ERA was 3.41. John Ward outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (4.3461226399548), Pre-Generational (3.4570995999774), Y (3.0750522047158), mlb (4.3614031148122), and SS (5.3115671641791) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Earned run average (ERA) is a metric that shows how many earned runs on average, a pitcher or team's pitcher, gives up over the course of nine innings. It is calculated by dividing earned runs by innings pitched then multiplying the result by 9. Generally, for ERA, lower is better. (Source)

John Ward Lifetime ERA and Similar Stats

Stats similar to ERA for John Ward

	John Ward ERA	John Ward Component ERA	John Ward Defense Independent ERA
Career	2.1	2.03	2.7
Season Avg.	2.31	2.35	2.85
162 Game Avg.	2.1	2.03	2.7
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John Ward ERA By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows John Ward's yearly ERA for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SS, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

John Ward ERA By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how John Ward's career ERA changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career ERA John Ward had at that season in his career.

John Ward ERA By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between John Ward and related player groups by summarizing ERA for each season played by John Ward. 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!

John Ward ERA Per Season Stats Table

This table shows John Ward ERA 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, SS, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of John Ward 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.