16 Hall of Fame players with WAR >= 100: Jaffe WAR Score.

Remember, Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is a total stat, not an average.

WAR for Babe Ruth below is for his predominantly batting seasons with the Yankees.

Ruth had been a starting pitcher with the Red Sox before that: primarily 1915, 1916, 1917; Ruth also batted on all games that he pitched; the Designated Hitter (DH) rule was introduced in 1973 in the American League (AL).

Ruth has an additional 20.4 WAR as a pitcher. His total WAR: 162.2 + 20.4 = 182.6. That's the career high for any AL/NL player/pitcher.

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About Jay Jaffe

In January 2004, while at Baseball Prospectus, he introduced the system that became JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score). JAWS is a tool that facilitates the comparison of Hall of Fame candidates ...

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https://www.si.com/mlb/2016/11/28/jaws-2017-hall-of-fame-ballot-introduction

It uses the baseball-reference.com version of Wins Above Replacement to estimate a player's total hitting, pitching and defensive value while accounting for the wide variations in scoring levels that have occurred throughout the game's history and from ballpark to ballpark. A player's JAWS is the average of his career WAR total and that of his peak, which I define as his best seven years. All three are useful for comparative purposes ...

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OK, that should get you into the proverbial ballpark. I created a spreadsheet for the top 16 Hall of Fame (HoF) players derived from:

For combined seasons, since 1903, Playing in the AL or NL, a member of the Hall of Fame, in the regular season, requiring Wins Above Replacement (WAR) >= 100, sorted by descending Wins Above Replacement (WAR).

https://stathead.com/tiny/tDbre

I also added Barry Bonds underneath the matrix for context, since Bonds has a slightly higher career WAR than the batting only number for Ruth. All seven of Ruth's best seven seasons are higher than the corresponding ones for Bonds: a shut-out.

Click this link to view the spreadsheet, which is also shown below.

Rk	Player	WAR		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Ave7	WAR7	JAWS	Jrk	Rk +-		From	To	Age
1	Babe Ruth	162.2		14.1	12.8	12.6	11.9	11.4	11.4	10.5	12.1	84.7	123.45	1	0	Babe Ruth	1914	1935	19-40
2	Willie Mays	156.2		11.2	11.0	10.6	10.5	10.5	10.2	9.5	10.5	73.5	114.85	2	0	Willie Mays	1951	1973	20-42
3	Ty Cobb	151.4		11.3	10.7	10.5	9.9	9.5	9.2	8.0	9.9	69.1	110.25	3	0	Ty Cobb	1905	1928	18-41
4	Henry Aaron	143.1		9.4	9.1	8.6	8.5	8.5	8.0	8.0	8.6	60.1	101.60	4	0	Henry Aaron	1954	1976	20-42
5	Tris Speaker	135.0		10.2	10.0	9.1	8.7	8.6	8.5	7.7	9.0	62.8	98.90	6	-1	Tris Speaker	1907	1928	19-40
6	Stan Musial	128.5		11.3	9.5	9.3	9.1	8.9	8.8	7.6	9.2	64.5	96.50	7	-1	Stan Musial	1941	1963	20-42
7	Rogers Hornsby	127.0		12.1	10.8	10.6	10.2	10.2	10.1	9.9	10.6	73.9	100.45	5	2	Rogers Hornsby	1915	1937	19-41
8	Eddie Collins	124.3		10.5	9.7	9.4	9.1	9.0	8.9	7.9	9.2	64.5	94.40	9	-1	Eddie Collins	1906	1930	19-43
9	Ted Williams	121.8		10.6	10.5	10.4	9.7	9.5	9.0	8.3	9.7	68.0	94.90	8	1	Ted Williams	1939	1960	20-41
10	Lou Gehrig	113.7		11.9	10.0	9.7	9.6	9.5	8.6	8.3	9.7	67.6	90.65	10	0	Lou Gehrig	1923	1939	20-36
11	Rickey Henderson	111.1		9.9	9.9	8.8	6.9	6.7	6.7	6.3	7.9	55.2	83.15	12	-1	Rickey Henderson	1979	2003	20-44
12	Mel Ott	110.9		8.9	8.3	7.8	7.2	7.2	7.2	7.2	7.7	53.8	82.35	14	-2	Mel Ott	1926	1947	17-38
13	Mickey Mantle	110.2		11.3	11.2	10.4	9.5	8.7	6.9	6.4	9.2	64.4	87.30	11	2	Mickey Mantle	1951	1968	19-36
14	Frank Robinson	107.2		8.7	7.9	7.7	7.7	7.5	6.9	6.5	7.6	52.9	80.05	15	-1	Frank Robinson	1956	1976	20-40
15	Mike Schmidt	106.9		9.8	8.9	8.9	8.0	7.9	7.7	7.7	8.4	58.9	82.90	13	2	Mike Schmidt	1972	1989	22-39
16	Joe Morgan	100.6		11.0	9.6	9.3	9.3	8.6	5.8	5.7	8.5	59.3	79.95	16	0	Joe Morgan	1963	1984	19-40
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Ave7	WAR7	JAWS
		max		14.1	12.8	12.6	11.9	11.4	11.4	10.5	12.1	84.7	123.45
		min		8.7	7.9	7.7	6.9	6.7	5.8	5.7	7.6	52.9	79.95
	Barry Bonds	162.8		11.9	11.8	10.6	9.9	9.7	9.7	9.2	10.4	72.8	117.80

Rk: rank order in the left column is for career WAR.

Columns 1 through 7 obviously have WAR in the top seven seasons in descending order. BOLD indicates that it was #1 in the league that season. Mantle's #7 is the lowest league leader: 6.4.

Ave7: the average of those seven seasons.

WAR7: Ave7 * 7

JAWS: (WAR+WAR7)/2; the average of the two

Jrk: JAWS rank order

Rk+-: Rk - Jrk; the difference; for instance:

Hornsby, Mantle and Schmidt all moved up two places.

Ott moved down 2;

Others moved up or down one.

The top four remained in their same positions.

#4 Aaron seems to be that high because of his very long career. His top season is lower than all 7 of Ruth's and 6 of Mays.

Robinson's top 3 are the lowest among these 16 players. Likewise Henderson's 4 and 5 and Morgan's 6 and 7.

Robinson has the lowest Ave7 and WAR7.

Morgan has the lowest JAWS.

Obviously, Ruth dominates, leading in everything.

Does JAWS help? My example is for all fielding positions. I wanted the top HoF in career WAR. Jaffe uses his method by position. Example: right fielders:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/jaws_RF.shtml

Fielding position starts among Jaffe's top right fielders:

Ruth: RF: 1,118; LF: 1,040

Aaron: RF: 2,134; LF: 304; CF: 297; 1B: 203

Musial: 1B: 989; LF: 868; RF: 678; CF: 306

Kaline: RF: 1,900; CF: 468; 1B: 110

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It is based on WAR, which is basically composed of oWAR and dWAR but not the simple addition of the two. As Jaffe notes, there are other versions of WAR.

There are different versions of current fielding stats and they don't always align. I am skeptical of current fielding stats. Trying to depend on fielding stats from previous epochs borders on the absurd. No disrespect to Jay Jaffe intended. He's got an interesting method.