John Britton
Chicago American Giants 1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Birmingham Black Barons 1944–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .176 | .176 | .176 | .353 | 9.6 | 5.2 | .166 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 33 | 136 | 128 | 17 | 39 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .305 | .341 | .359 | .700 | 112.4 | 114.9 | .337 | 0.7 |
| 1944 | 33 | 144 | 132 | 16 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .357 | .394 | .751 | 128.0 | 132.6 | .360 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 16 | 70 | 66 | 13 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .379 | .406 | .470 | .875 | 147.3 | 155.7 | .409 | 0.7 |
| 1946 | 10 | 46 | 43 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .233 | .267 | .302 | .569 | 67.9 | 67.8 | .276 | 0.0 |
| 1947 | 14 | 66 | 62 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .194 | .206 | .194 | .400 | 15.2 | 7.8 | .194 | -0.5 |
| 1948 | 29 | 134 | 128 | 18 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .242 | .265 | .305 | .570 | 54.3 | 52.3 | .267 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-07 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1944-08-27 | BBB @ NYC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-09-14 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-21 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1946-06-03 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-07-27 | NE @ HSL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-10 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-10 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-17 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-05-17 | CAG @ BBB 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.