Bill Akers
Detroit Tigers 1929–1931; Boston Braves 1932
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 24 | 98 | 83 | 15 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .265 | .351 | .373 | .725 | 87.0 | 85.1 | .340 | 0.3 |
| 1930 | 85 | 277 | 233 | 36 | 65 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 36 | 34 | 5 | 5 | .279 | .375 | .472 | .848 | 110.7 | 110.7 | .382 | 1.5 |
| 1931 | 29 | 73 | 66 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .197 | .274 | .288 | .562 | 45.8 | 45.7 | .269 | -0.2 |
| 1932 | 36 | 105 | 93 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .330 | .344 | .674 | 87.8 | 85.8 | .312 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-09-13 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1932-06-04 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 1930-06-14 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1930-08-01 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1929-09-24 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-04-16 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-17 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-18 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-19 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-20 | DET @ BAL 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.