Bill Ricks
Philadelphia Stars 1944–1948
Percentile snapshot
1946 season — qualified pitchers
of 78 qualified 1946 pitchers (min 56 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 24 | 66 | 61 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .262 | .279 | .540 | 49.7 | 44.8 | .260 | 4.0 |
| 1945 | 19 | 39 | 39 | 8 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .487 | .487 | .590 | 1.077 | 190.2 | 200.9 | .502 | 2.5 |
| 1946 | 16 | 28 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .231 | .462 | 31.5 | 29.0 | .220 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -96.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
| 1948 | 9 | 22 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .227 | .364 | .591 | 62.5 | 69.6 | .270 | 1.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 149 | 47 | 51 | 92 | 5 | 148.0 | 2.86 | 1.351 | 5.59 | 4.05 | 93.8 | 151.0 | 4.0 |
| 1945 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 66 | 21 | 21 | 48 | 0 | 72.7 | 2.60 | 1.197 | 5.94 | 3.35 | 81.3 | 158.5 | 2.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 63 | 34 | 26 | 25 | 3 | 64.7 | 4.73 | 1.376 | 3.48 | 4.73 | 107.1 | 93.3 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11.0 | 10.64 | 2.091 | 1.64 | 6.57 | 158.7 | 38.9 | -0.7 |
| 1948 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 43 | 10 | 21 | 28 | 0 | 52.0 | 1.73 | 1.231 | 4.85 | 3.41 | 96.0 | 205.0 | 1.7 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-06-12 | BEG @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-05-05 | BEG @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-07-25 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-07-01 | NYC @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-08-23 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-07-01 | NYC @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 1944-08-19 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 1945-05-12 | NYC @ PHS Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1944-06-01 | NE @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1945-07-25 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.