Ted Williams Career Total Average Overview

Ted Williams's Total Average was 1.323 for his 19-year Major League Baseball career. 1952 was his best season when his Total Average was 1.833 and his worst season was 1959 when his Total Average was 0.8. Ted Williams outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.628342), The Greatest Generation (0.624626), Y (0.841924), mlb (0.626148), and LF (0.679946) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Total average (TA) is a metric that designed to measure a players overall offensive conrtributions. It's calculated by dividing total bases, walks, hit by pitch, and stolen bases by at bats that did not result in a hit, times caught stealing, and times grounded into a double play. Generally, for Total Average, higher is better. (Source)

Ted Williams Lifetime Total Average

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Ted Williams
Total Average
Career1.323
Season Avg.1.37
162 Game Avg.1.323
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Ted Williams Total Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Ted Williams's yearly Total Average for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, LF, 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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Ted Williams Total Average By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ted Williams and related player groups by summarizing Total Average for each season played by Ted Williams. 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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Ted Williams Total Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ted Williams Total 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, LF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Ted Williams 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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