How Cotton Williams's Opposing Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Cotton Williams posted a career Opposing Batting Average of .282, near the starting pitcher average of .260 — a profile that tracked closely with league norms. His strongest Opposing Batting Average season came in 1945, posting .188. The highest point came in 1946 at .348. The Opposing Batting Average trended upward through the final seasons. The figure moved from .348 in 1946 to .267 in 1947 and .287 in 1948. The upward arc continued through his final campaign. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average tracked near league norms across 5 seasons.

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Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average Per Season

Cotton Williams's Opposing Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — Negro National League II, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average per season line chart

Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average by Team

Cotton Williams's career Opposing Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
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Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Cotton Williams's career Opposing Batting Average 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.
Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Cotton Williams's seasonal Opposing Batting Average 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.
Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Cotton Williams's MLB career with Opposing Batting Average 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.
Cotton Williams Opposing Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table