William Fischer
Brooklyn Superbas 1913; Brooklyn Robins 1914; Chicago Whales 1915; Chicago Cubs 1916; Pittsburgh Pirates 1916–1917
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 | 62 | 178 | 165 | 16 | 44 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .313 | .388 | .700 | 96.0 | 99.0 | .329 | 0.9 |
| 1914 | 43 | 116 | 105 | 12 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .257 | .310 | .305 | .614 | 80.0 | 81.1 | .300 | 0.4 |
| 1915 | 105 | 329 | 292 | 30 | 96 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 50 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 0 | .329 | .384 | .449 | .832 | 144.5 | 144.2 | .395 | 3.6 |
| 1916 | 107 | 324 | 292 | 26 | 64 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 0 | .219 | .276 | .315 | .591 | 77.1 | 80.1 | .284 | 1.1 |
| 1917 | 95 | 277 | 245 | 25 | 70 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 27 | 19 | 11 | 0 | .286 | .359 | .376 | .734 | 126.0 | 122.0 | .354 | 2.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-05-16 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1913-08-16 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1916-09-22 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1916-04-20 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1916-08-26 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913-04-09 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-10 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-14 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-18 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-19 | PHI @ LAD 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.