Clyde Nelson
Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Chicago American Giants 1944–1946; Cleveland Buckeyes 1947–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 13 | 45 | 42 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .244 | .238 | .483 | 53.0 | 48.3 | .239 | -0.1 |
| 1944 | 22 | 81 | 77 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .234 | .272 | .312 | .583 | 79.3 | 80.7 | .283 | 0.0 |
| 1945 | 27 | 109 | 94 | 20 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .343 | .319 | .662 | 99.9 | 94.3 | .325 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 19 | 78 | 72 | 8 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .361 | .410 | .514 | .924 | 159.3 | 172.3 | .440 | 0.8 |
| 1947 | 20 | 79 | 74 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .230 | .269 | .297 | .567 | 55.7 | 52.3 | .272 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | 52 | 45 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .327 | .356 | .682 | 86.5 | 82.7 | .327 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-05-11 | IC @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1946-06-11 | CAG @ IC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1944-08-14 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1946-05-05 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-08-26 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-05-16 | BBB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-16 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-16 | BBB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-18 | BBB @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-05-23 | CAG @ IC 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.
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.