Roy Ellam
Cincinnati Reds 1909; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 10 | 29 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .190 | .393 | .429 | .821 | 160.3 | 154.8 | .408 | 0.4 |
| 1918 | 26 | 101 | 77 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .130 | .302 | .169 | .471 | 58.5 | 43.2 | .264 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-09-29 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1918-07-27 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1909-10-01 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1918-07-31 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1918-08-01 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-04-14 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-15 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-16 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-17 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909-04-18 | STL @ CIN 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.