Cy Young Career Runs Allowed Per Game Overview

Cy Young's Runs Allowed Per Game was 3.5 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1908 was his best season when his Runs Allowed Per Game was 1.88889 and his worst season was 1890 when his Runs Allowed Per Game was 5.11765. Cy Young is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by USA (1.8509915659653), Y (2.497979048248), mlb (1.7931517668053), SP (2.4675855423256), and Pre-Generational (3.6567310600082) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Runs allowed are the average number of runs given up by a pitcher or a team's pitchers divided by the number of games pitched. Generally, for Runs Allowed Per Game, lower is better. (Source)

Cy Young Lifetime Runs Allowed Per Game

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Cy Young
Runs Allowed Per Game
Career3.5
Season Avg.3.48
162 Game Avg.3.5
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Cy Young Runs Allowed Per Game By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cy Young's yearly Runs Allowed Per Game 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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Cy Young Runs Allowed Per Game By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Cy Young's career Runs Allowed Per Game changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Runs Allowed Per Game Cy Young had at that season in his career.
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Cy Young Runs Allowed Per Game By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cy Young and related player groups by summarizing Runs Allowed Per Game for each season played by Cy Young. 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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Cy Young Runs Allowed Per Game Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cy Young Runs Allowed Per Game 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 Cy Young 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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