Poindexter Williams
Chicago American Giants 1921; Detroit Stars 1921–1922; Birmingham Black Barons 1923–1925; Birmingham Black Barons 1927–1929; Nashville Elite Giants 1930; Louisville White Sox 1931; Homestead Grays 1933; Nashville Elite Giants 1933
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 20 | 57 | 52 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .236 | .192 | .429 | 31.3 | 22.0 | .213 | -0.2 |
| 1922 | 54 | 174 | 164 | 22 | 46 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .280 | .318 | .378 | .696 | 86.5 | 86.4 | .321 | 0.6 |
| 1923 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 37.9 | -14.3 | .189 | 0.0 |
| 1924 | 66 | 216 | 193 | 21 | 53 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .275 | .333 | .358 | .691 | 90.5 | 89.3 | .329 | 0.8 |
| 1925 | 69 | 263 | 242 | 28 | 81 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 49 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .335 | .374 | .525 | .898 | 130.9 | 138.7 | .400 | 2.4 |
| 1927 | 77 | 245 | 229 | 28 | 83 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 50 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .362 | .384 | .520 | .904 | 137.2 | 141.4 | .408 | 2.5 |
| 1928 | 22 | 50 | 47 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .255 | .286 | .298 | .584 | 61.3 | 59.4 | .273 | 0.0 |
| 1929 | 67 | 258 | 227 | 31 | 66 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 46 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .291 | .351 | .432 | .783 | 102.1 | 103.0 | .357 | 1.5 |
| 1930 | 11 | 43 | 38 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .342 | .390 | .553 | .943 | 140.4 | 148.3 | .421 | 0.4 |
| 1931 | 25 | 95 | 89 | 13 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .315 | .358 | .449 | .807 | 118.1 | 124.3 | .380 | 0.7 |
| 1933 | 12 | 36 | 33 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .306 | .364 | .669 | 84.7 | 83.7 | .307 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-05-21 | CTS @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1931-06-09 | LBC @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 1930-08-26 | BEG @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1922-06-04 | PTK @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1930-08-24 | BEG @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-05-07 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-05-08 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-05-09 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-05-23 | CAG @ SLS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-05-24 | CAG @ SLS 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.