Jim Thorpe
New York Giants 1913–1915; Cincinnati Reds 1917; New York Giants 1917–1918; Boston Braves 1919; New York Giants 1919
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 19 | 36 | 35 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .143 | .167 | .229 | .395 | 3.5 | 12.9 | .185 | -0.3 |
| 1914 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .194 | .194 | .226 | .419 | 16.1 | 26.8 | .198 | -0.2 |
| 1915 | 17 | 54 | 52 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 2 | .231 | .259 | .327 | .586 | 75.1 | 81.2 | .277 | 0.0 |
| 1917 | 103 | 337 | 308 | 41 | 73 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 40 | 14 | 45 | 12 | 0 | .237 | .275 | .357 | .632 | 91.0 | 95.2 | .298 | 0.2 |
| 1918 | 58 | 119 | 113 | 15 | 28 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 18 | 3 | 0 | .248 | .286 | .381 | .666 | 101.1 | 105.8 | .316 | 0.2 |
| 1919 | 62 | 172 | 159 | 16 | 52 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 6 | 30 | 7 | 0 | .327 | .359 | .428 | .787 | 138.9 | 138.6 | .370 | 1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918-07-09 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1917-06-24 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1917-05-24 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1917-07-04 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1917-07-17 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913-04-10 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-14 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-17 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-18 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-19 | SF @ ATL 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.