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Walter Henry Schang

First name: Wally

Last name: Schang

Birthdate: 1889-08-22

Bats: B Throws: R

RetroID: schaw101

Batting – Career

Year	Team	Off GS	Def GS	Game Shares	WAR	W	L	Victory Shares
1913	PHA	3.2	1.5	4.7	3.4	4.8	-0.1	14
1914	PHA	4.6	2.2	6.8	3.5	5.4	1.1	16
1915	PHA	5.9	1.4	7.3	3.3	5.4	1.9	16
1916	PHA	5.3	1.2	6.5	2.5	4.4	2.1	13
1917	PHA	4.7	1.8	6.6	2.0	3.9	2.6	12
1918	BOS	3.7	1.3	5.0	0.8	2.3	2.7	7
1919	BOS	5.2	2.2	7.4	3.8	5.9	1.4	18
1920	BOS	5.8	2.0	7.8	2.1	4.4	3.4	13
1921	NYA	6.3	2.8	9.1	4.2	6.8	2.2	20
1922	NYA	6.1	2.6	8.7	2.8	5.4	3.3	16
1923	NYA	3.8	1.6	5.4	-0.8	0.8	4.6	2
1924	NYA	5.2	2.1	7.4	1.8	3.9	3.4	12
1925	NYA	2.4	0.9	3.3	-0.7	0.3	3.0	1
1926	SLA	4.2	1.5	5.7	2.6	4.3	1.4	13
1927	SLA	4.0	1.5	5.4	2.6	4.2	1.1	13
1928	SLA	4.0	1.6	5.6	2.5	4.2	1.5	13
1929	SLA	4.1	1.7	5.8	2.0	3.7	2.1	11
1930	PHA	1.4	0.5	1.9	-0.6	0.0	1.9	0
1931	DET	1.1	0.5	1.7	-0.2	0.3	1.4	1
Career		81.0	30.9	112.1	37.6	70.4	41.0	211

Detailed Batting Components

Year	Team	PA	BatRuns	Adj R	RISP	BSR	DP	ROE	Fld	Pos	RAA	RPW	WAA	Pos Wins	LgA	WAM	DVoDH
1913	PHA	254	11	12	3	1	1	0	1	5	18	9.7	1.9	0.5	0.0	2.4	13
1914	PHA	355	13	13	3	-3	1	0	-3	7	11	8.9	1.2	0.7	0.1	2.0	13
1915	PHA	451	11	10	1	10	1	-2	-8	1	12	9.9	1.2	0.1	0.1	1.4	3
1916	PHA	400	14	14	-2	-1	0	-2	1	0	10	8.8	1.1	0.0	0.1	1.2	10
1917	PHA	369	13	13	-1	-3	0	1	-8	5	2	8.8	0.2	0.5	0.1	0.8	5
1918	BOS	282	3	4	-1	2	0	1	-10	3	-4	7.9	-0.5	0.3	0.1	-0.1	0
1919	BOS	414	17	19	3	-2	0	0	-5	7	15	8.9	1.7	0.7	0.1	2.5	11
1920	BOS	470	18	20	1	-2	0	-2	-15	4	2	9.4	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.7	0
1921	NYA	516	20	20	1	4	2	0	-11	8	16	11.0	1.5	0.8	0.1	2.4	10
1922	NYA	492	10	10	-5	-3	1	-2	4	7	5	9.6	0.5	0.7	0.1	1.3	23
1923	NYA	315	-5	-5	-2	-4	-1	-1	-11	4	-24	10.0	-2.4	0.4	0.1	-1.9	1
1924	NYA	421	3	4	-3	3	0	0	-7	6	-3	10.1	-0.3	0.6	0.1	0.4	9
1925	NYA	191	-9	-8	1	-2	0	-1	-4	2	-14	10.0	-1.4	0.2	0.0	-1.2	3
1926	SLA	332	16	13	2	-2	0	0	-4	4	9	10.3	0.9	0.4	0.1	1.4	7
1927	SLA	311	10	8	0	1	0	0	2	4	11	10.8	1.0	0.4	0.1	1.5	13
1928	SLA	326	13	12	0	2	0	-1	-5	4	8	10.3	0.8	0.4	0.1	1.3	7
1929	SLA	333	7	6	1	-2	-1	-1	0	5	3	9.9	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.9	12
1930	PHA	116	-7	-7	-1	1	0	0	-5	1	-12	11.2	-1.1	0.1	0.0	-1.0	-1
1931	DET	91	-6	-6	-1	-1	1	1	0	1	-6	10.1	-0.6	0.1	0.0	-0.5	4
Career		6,439	152	152	0	-1	5	-9	-88	78	59	-	6.2	7.8	1.5	15.5	143

Defense

Catcher Defense

Year	Team	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Frame Runs	SB Runs	Block Runs	Err Runs	Catcher Runs	Total Fielding Runs
1913	PHA	55	0.0	0	0	0	2.0	-0.7	-0.4	1	1
1914	PHA	82	-3.0	-3	-2	0	2.5	-0.1	-3.2	-1	-3
1915	PHA	18	0.0	0	0	0	2.5	-1.5	-1.6	-1	-1
1916	PHA	24	-1.0	-1	-1	-1	4.2	-1.9	-2.8	0	-2
1917	PHA	59	-2.0	-2	-1	-4	0.4	-3.0	-1.9	-5	-10
1918	BOS	32	1.0	1	1	-2	-3.2	0.2	-0.7	-4	-5
1919	BOS	75	-1.0	-1	-1	-4	3.2	-3.2	0.0	0	-5
1920	BOS	55	1.0	1	1	-4	-5.2	-0.4	-2.5	-8	-11
1921	NYA	102	1.0	1	1	-6	-4.5	-1.2	0.0	-6	-11
1922	NYA	85	0.0	0	0	-6	10.0	0.4	-0.6	10	4
1923	NYA	60	-2.0	-2	-2	-4	-3.2	-1.0	-0.6	-5	-11
1924	NYA	93	1.0	1	1	-4	-1.1	-2.7	0.1	-4	-7
1925	NYA	40	0.0	0	0	-2	-1.2	-0.4	-0.3	-2	-4
1926	SLA	60	-2.0	-2	-2	-4	3.5	-2.1	-0.7	1	-5
1927	SLA	53	1.0	1	1	-3	4.9	-1.6	0.8	4	2
1928	SLA	56	-1.0	-1	-1	-4	-2.6	1.0	1.4	0	-5
1929	SLA	63	0.0	0	0	-4	-0.6	2.5	1.6	4	0
1930	PHA	27	0.0	0	0	-1	-1.9	-1.0	-1.1	-4	-5
1931	DET	19	0.0	0	0	-1	0.4	0.4	-0.2	1	0
		1058	-7.0	-7	-5	-54	10.1	-16.3	-12.7	-19	-78

Infield Defense

Year	Team	POS	BIP	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Play+	GB+	DP Start	Total Fielding Runs
1915	PHA	3B	1124	164	-5.5	-5	-3	-5	-8	-0.3	-3
1917	PHA	3B	304	44	1.0	1	1	8	5	0.0	1
1918	BOS	3B	123	19	-2.0	-2	-1	-2	-2	-0.3	-1
1918	BOS	SS	21	4	0.0	0	0	-2	-2	0.0	0
		3B	1551	227	-6.5	-6	-3	1	-5	-0.6	-3
		SS	21	4	0.0	0	0	-2	-2	0.0	0

Outfield Defense

Year	Team	POS	BIP	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Play+	OF Arm Opps	OF Arm Runs	Total Fielding Runs
1915	PHA	LF	405	46	-1.4	-1	-1	1	21	-1	-2
1915	PHA	CF	573	56	-3.6	-3	-3	-4	35	1	-2
1916	PHA	LF	1528	177	3.8	4	3	13	68	1	4
1916	PHA	CF	63	7	-0.6	-1	-1	2	3	0	-1
1917	PHA	LF	60	5	0.0	0	0	0	3	1	1
1917	PHA	RF	38	11	-1.0	-1	-1	0	3	1	0
1918	BOS	LF	379	39	-2.0	-2	-2	-7	20	-2	-4
1918	BOS	CF	71	11	0.0	0	0	4	2	0	0
1920	BOS	LF	32	2	0.0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
1920	BOS	CF	1153	144	-3.0	-4	-4	2	60	0	-4
1920	BOS	RF	5	4	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926	SLA	LF	37	5	1.0	1	1	2	0	0	1
		LF	2441	274	1.4	2	1	8	112	-1	0
		CF	1860	218	-7.2	-8	-8	4	100	1	-7
		RF	43	15	-1.0	-1	-1	0	3	1	0

Batting – Postseason

Year	Team	Off GS	Def GS	Game Shares	WAR	W	L	Victory Shares
1913	PHA	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.6	0.7	-0.4	2
1914	PHA	0.2	0.1	0.3	-0.1	-0.1	0.3	0
1918	BOS	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	-0.1	1
1921	NYA	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.5	0.6	-0.1	2
1922	NYA	0.2	0.1	0.3	-0.2	-0.1	0.4	0
1923	NYA	0.3	0.1	0.4	-0.1	0.0	0.5	0
Career		1.5	0.7	2.1	1.0	1.4	0.6	5

Postseason Batting Components

Year	Team	PA	BatRuns	Adj R	RISP	BSR	Fld	Pos	RAA	RPW	WAA	Pos Wins	WAM	DVoDH
1913	PHA	16	3	3	1	1	0	0	5	8.5	0.6	0.0	0.6	1
1914	PHA	13	-1	-1	0	0	0	0	-1	6.8	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	1
1918	BOS	11	2	2	0	-1	0	0	1	4.6	0.2	0.0	0.2	0
1921	NYA	27	2	2	0	0	1	1	3	7.5	0.4	0.1	0.5	2
1922	NYA	19	-1	-1	0	0	0	0	-1	8.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	1
1923	NYA	25	0	0	-1	0	0	0	-1	8.7	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	1
Career		111	5	5	0	0	1	1	6	-	0.9	0.1	1.0	6

Glossary

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Stat description
GS	Game Shares
WAM	Wins above Majors. Formerly wins above average, but WAM! sounds better than WAA. Credit to Don Sobocinski for the name.
WAR	Wins above Replacement
VS	Victory Shares
W	Wins - Not traditional pitcher wins. Estimate of the number of wins each pitcher was responsible for. His share, as opposed to the shares of his fielders and offense.
L	Losses - See wins above, just the opposite side of the final score.
BatRuns	Batting runs above average
Adj R	Park adjusted batting runs
RISP	Runs for hitting better or worse than overall with runners in scoring position
BSR	Baserunning runs
DP	Double play avoidance runs
ROE	Runs from reaching on error
Fld	Fielding runs
Pos	Position adjustment
DH	Designated hitter adjustment
Pit	Pitcher batting adjustment
RAA	Runs above average before position and league adjustment
RPW	Runs per win
WAA	Wins above average before position and league adjustment
POS Wins	Position adjustment converted to wins
LGA	League quality adjustment
DVoDH	Defensive Value (in runs) over designated hitter
G	Games pitched
GS	Game shares. For pitchers based on innings and leverage index
XR	Expected runs based on ballparks and opponents faced
DR	Defensive runs support
Role	Starter vs reliever role adjustment
LgAdj	League adjustment
R+	Runs above average
LI	Leverage index
R_lev+	Leverage adjusted runs above average
Chances	Estimated opportunies to make a defensive play
BIP	Balls in play while this player was on the field
OAA	Outs above average, based on defensive efficiency assigned at the player level
OAA adj	Park adjusted outs above average
DER runs	Run value of outs above average
Frame Runs	Runs from framing balls and strikes
SB Runs	Stolen base prevention runs
Block Runs	Wild pitch and passed ball prevention runs
Err Runs	Catcher error prevention runs
Catcher Runs	Catcher runs from SB, errors, PB, and WP. Does not include framing.
Play+	plays made above average per ball in play
GB+	ground ball plays above average per ball in play
DP Start	Runs from starting double plays
DP Turn	Runs from turning double plays
DP runs	Total double play runs
OF Arm opps	Opportunities for an outfielder to make a throwing play
OF Arm runs	Runs from throwing from the outfield

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