John Bissant
Cincinnati Tigers 1937; Chicago American Giants 1939; Chicago American Giants 1942–1947
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 6.3 | -7.6 | .154 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 17 | 65 | 60 | 8 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .328 | .450 | .778 | 118.8 | 125.0 | .362 | 0.3 |
| 1942 | 14 | 49 | 48 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .208 | .224 | .229 | .454 | 38.7 | 35.2 | .215 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 29 | 117 | 107 | 20 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .290 | .345 | .411 | .756 | 127.1 | 131.7 | .361 | 0.7 |
| 1944 | 21 | 85 | 82 | 6 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .293 | .310 | .415 | .724 | 117.4 | 124.0 | .343 | 0.4 |
| 1945 | 32 | 133 | 119 | 29 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .341 | .361 | .702 | 106.4 | 105.6 | .337 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 11 | 49 | 43 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .233 | .283 | .279 | .562 | 69.0 | 65.8 | .278 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 16 | 39 | 33 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .424 | .500 | .455 | .955 | 153.9 | 157.6 | .463 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-26 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1944-06-18 | CLB @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1939-08-28 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1943-05-25 | CAG @ IC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-07-18 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | DTS @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-10 | DTS @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-10 | DTS @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-15 | CIN @ DTS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-22 | CIN @ KCM 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.