Bill Killefer
St. Louis Browns 1909–1910; Philadelphia Phillies 1911–1917; Chicago Cubs 1918–1921
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
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 11 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .138 | .138 | .138 | .276 | -24.8 | -12.1 | .133 | -0.2 |
| 1910 | 74 | 215 | 193 | 14 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .124 | .184 | .155 | .339 | 6.6 | 7.8 | .176 | -0.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .188 | .188 | .375 | -4.2 | 4.8 | .178 | -0.1 |
| 1912 | 85 | 289 | 268 | 18 | 60 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 0 | .224 | .241 | .280 | .521 | 31.3 | 38.8 | .246 | -0.8 |
| 1913 | 120 | 375 | 360 | 25 | 88 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .244 | .255 | .300 | .555 | 47.2 | 55.2 | .259 | -0.1 |
| 1914 | 98 | 320 | 299 | 27 | 70 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 0 | .234 | .261 | .274 | .536 | 48.4 | 55.3 | .258 | -0.1 |
| 1915 | 105 | 345 | 320 | 26 | 76 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 3 | .238 | .287 | .278 | .565 | 68.7 | 70.9 | .275 | 0.9 |
| 1916 | 97 | 307 | 286 | 22 | 62 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 0 | .217 | .246 | .294 | .539 | 55.5 | 63.5 | .256 | 0.4 |
| 1917 | 125 | 437 | 409 | 28 | 112 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 15 | 21 | 4 | 0 | .274 | .306 | .303 | .609 | 82.2 | 84.9 | .293 | 1.8 |
| 1918 | 104 | 364 | 331 | 30 | 77 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 0 | .233 | .276 | .281 | .557 | 66.1 | 69.6 | .272 | 0.8 |
| 1919 | 103 | 345 | 315 | 17 | 90 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 0 | .286 | .322 | .330 | .652 | 96.7 | 97.6 | .312 | 2.0 |
| 1920 | 62 | 212 | 191 | 16 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | .220 | .280 | .267 | .547 | 54.2 | 56.3 | .266 | 0.1 |
| 1921 | 45 | 144 | 133 | 11 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .323 | .357 | .331 | .688 | 83.7 | 82.8 | .323 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-07-04 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1912-07-04 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1913-05-19 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1920-04-14 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1916-07-21 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-04-14 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-15 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-16 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-17 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-18 | CWS @ 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.