Willie Nixon
Birmingham Black Barons 1940; Newark Eagles 1940; Birmingham Black Barons 1941; Jacksonville Red Caps 1941
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 29 | 110 | 93 | 18 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .358 | .441 | .799 | 130.0 | 141.8 | .388 | 0.6 |
| 1941 | 11 | 35 | 32 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .273 | .438 | .710 | 101.5 | 110.0 | .330 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-06-30 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1940-06-09 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1941-05-04 | NE @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-06-30 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-05-19 | HSL @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-14 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-17 | NE @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-21 | BEG @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-28 | BBB @ BEG 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.