Cy Young Career Wins Overview

During Cy Young's 22-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 511 wins, an average of 23 wins per season. 1892 was his best season with 36 wins and his worst season was 1910 when he had 7 wins. Cy Young outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (34.132507854371), Pre-Generational (56.183006535948), Y (240.06944444444), mlb (32.976511664815), and SP (48.378056052475) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A win is awarded to a pitcher who last pitched for the winning team in the previous half inning where the winning team took their final lead. Generally, for Wins, higher is better. (Source)

Cy Young Lifetime Wins

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Cy Young Wins By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Cy Young's yearly Wins 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 Cumulative Wins by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Cy Young's career Wins progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Cy Young's career Wins at the end of that season.
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Cy Young Wins By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Cy Young and related player groups by summarizing Wins 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 Wins Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Cy Young Wins 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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