Fred Nicholson
Detroit Tigers 1917; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919–1920; Boston Braves 1921–1922
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .333 | .357 | .690 | 107.1 | 109.1 | .338 | 0.1 |
| 1919 | 30 | 73 | 66 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .409 | .742 | 121.5 | 120.8 | .351 | 0.3 |
| 1920 | 99 | 271 | 247 | 33 | 89 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 18 | 31 | 9 | 6 | .360 | .404 | .530 | .934 | 168.9 | 166.0 | .430 | 3.0 |
| 1921 | 83 | 271 | 245 | 36 | 80 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 41 | 17 | 29 | 5 | 4 | .327 | .370 | .490 | .860 | 129.6 | 130.5 | .388 | 1.5 |
| 1922 | 78 | 257 | 222 | 31 | 56 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 29 | 23 | 24 | 5 | 7 | .252 | .336 | .342 | .678 | 81.1 | 78.2 | .322 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-06-21 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1922-07-18 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1921-04-14 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1921-06-18 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-08-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-04-11 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-12 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-14 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-15 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-16 | CWS @ DET 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.