Alva Williams
Boston Red Sox 1911; Washington Senators 1912–1916; Cleveland Indians 1918
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 95 | 329 | 284 | 36 | 68 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 31 | 24 | 30 | 9 | 0 | .239 | .314 | .303 | .617 | 74.9 | 72.5 | .305 | -0.1 |
| 1912 | 61 | 168 | 157 | 14 | 50 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 3 | .318 | .352 | .439 | .791 | 120.9 | 126.4 | .375 | 1.4 |
| 1913 | 66 | 117 | 106 | 9 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 0 | .283 | .339 | .406 | .745 | 114.8 | 117.7 | .358 | 0.7 |
| 1914 | 81 | 189 | 169 | 17 | 47 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 2 | .278 | .341 | .379 | .719 | 113.5 | 114.7 | .351 | 1.3 |
| 1915 | 91 | 232 | 197 | 14 | 48 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 18 | 20 | 4 | 3 | .244 | .320 | .325 | .645 | 92.5 | 93.0 | .322 | 0.8 |
| 1916 | 76 | 230 | 202 | 16 | 54 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 15 | 19 | 5 | 0 | .267 | .324 | .337 | .661 | 98.9 | 100.8 | .326 | 0.6 |
| 1918 | 28 | 86 | 71 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .239 | .325 | .324 | .649 | 89.7 | 89.4 | .326 | 0.0 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-07-03 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| 1915-09-29 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1911-05-13 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1915-04-19 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1912-09-27 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-04-12 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-13 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-15 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-17 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1911-04-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.