{"sport":"mlb","slug":"bill-force","bio":{"fullName":"Bill Force","position":"X","team":null,"heightInches":69,"weightLbs":165,"birthDate":"1895-07-17","rookieSeason":1921,"lastSeason":1929,"status":"RET","externalIds":{"mlbam":"819505","chadwick":"238f05d3","retro":"forcb101","wikidata":"Q99195930"}},"draft":null,"statTables":[{"id":"batting","label":"Batting","columns":[{"key":"g"},{"key":"ab"},{"key":"r"},{"key":"h"},{"key":"doubles"},{"key":"triples"},{"key":"hr"},{"key":"rbi"},{"key":"sb"},{"key":"bb"},{"key":"so"},{"key":"avg"},{"key":"obp"},{"key":"slg"},{"key":"ops"}],"rows":[{"season":1921,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","gamesPlayed":35,"values":{"g":35,"ab":81,"r":7,"h":18,"doubles":2,"triples":2,"hr":0,"rbi":5,"sb":1,"bb":7,"so":null,"avg":0.222,"obp":0.292,"slg":0.296,"ops":0.588},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1922,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","gamesPlayed":29,"values":{"g":29,"ab":58,"r":10,"h":18,"doubles":0,"triples":3,"hr":3,"rbi":11,"sb":0,"bb":9,"so":null,"avg":0.31,"obp":0.412,"slg":0.569,"ops":0.981},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1923,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","gamesPlayed":52,"values":{"g":52,"ab":96,"r":16,"h":29,"doubles":6,"triples":0,"hr":2,"rbi":16,"sb":0,"bb":9,"so":null,"avg":0.302,"obp":0.362,"slg":0.427,"ops":0.789},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1924,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":27,"values":{"g":27,"ab":46,"r":5,"h":9,"doubles":2,"triples":0,"hr":0,"rbi":2,"sb":0,"bb":6,"so":null,"avg":0.196,"obp":0.288,"slg":0.239,"ops":0.527},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1925,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":14,"values":{"g":14,"ab":32,"r":2,"h":3,"doubles":0,"triples":0,"hr":0,"rbi":1,"sb":0,"bb":0,"so":null,"avg":0.094,"obp":0.094,"slg":0.094,"ops":0.188},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1926,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":19,"values":{"g":19,"ab":25,"r":0,"h":3,"doubles":0,"triples":0,"hr":0,"rbi":0,"sb":0,"bb":0,"so":null,"avg":0.12,"obp":0.12,"slg":0.12,"ops":0.24},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1927,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":27,"values":{"g":27,"ab":50,"r":12,"h":6,"doubles":1,"triples":1,"hr":1,"rbi":4,"sb":2,"bb":5,"so":null,"avg":0.12,"obp":0.2,"slg":0.24,"ops":0.44},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1928,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":16,"values":{"g":16,"ab":27,"r":2,"h":5,"doubles":2,"triples":0,"hr":0,"rbi":2,"sb":0,"bb":4,"so":null,"avg":0.185,"obp":0.313,"slg":0.259,"ops":0.572},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1929,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":7,"values":{"g":7,"ab":11,"r":0,"h":3,"doubles":0,"triples":0,"hr":0,"rbi":0,"sb":0,"bb":0,"so":null,"avg":0.273,"obp":0.273,"slg":0.273,"ops":0.546},"rowScope":"team"}],"careerTotals":{"REG":{"g":226,"ab":426,"r":54,"h":94,"doubles":13,"triples":6,"hr":6,"rbi":41,"sb":3,"bb":40,"so":null,"avg":0.221,"obp":0.292,"slg":0.322,"ops":0.614}}},{"id":"pitching","label":"Pitching","columns":[{"key":"g"},{"key":"gs"},{"key":"w"},{"key":"l"},{"key":"sv"},{"key":"ip"},{"key":"so"},{"key":"bb"},{"key":"h"},{"key":"er"},{"key":"hr"},{"key":"era"},{"key":"whip"}],"rows":[{"season":1921,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","gamesPlayed":25,"values":{"g":25,"gs":17,"w":8,"l":8,"sv":0,"ip":157,"so":86,"bb":41,"h":156,"er":77,"hr":8,"era":4.41,"whip":1.25},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1922,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","gamesPlayed":22,"values":{"g":22,"gs":15,"w":9,"l":4,"sv":1,"ip":140,"so":90,"bb":39,"h":119,"er":63,"hr":14,"era":4.05,"whip":1.13},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1923,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","gamesPlayed":37,"values":{"g":37,"gs":18,"w":11,"l":9,"sv":4,"ip":195,"so":92,"bb":50,"h":199,"er":84,"hr":15,"era":3.88,"whip":1.28},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1924,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":25,"values":{"g":25,"gs":12,"w":10,"l":6,"sv":0,"ip":115.1,"so":64,"bb":33,"h":115,"er":59,"hr":3,"era":4.6,"whip":1.28},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1925,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":13,"values":{"g":13,"gs":10,"w":3,"l":5,"sv":0,"ip":81.1,"so":38,"bb":28,"h":92,"er":36,"hr":1,"era":3.98,"whip":1.48},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1926,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":14,"values":{"g":14,"gs":7,"w":2,"l":5,"sv":1,"ip":49.1,"so":21,"bb":25,"h":62,"er":33,"hr":2,"era":6.02,"whip":1.76},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1927,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":22,"values":{"g":22,"gs":13,"w":7,"l":6,"sv":0,"ip":117,"so":37,"bb":40,"h":119,"er":50,"hr":9,"era":3.85,"whip":1.36},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1928,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":12,"values":{"g":12,"gs":4,"w":3,"l":1,"sv":0,"ip":56.1,"so":18,"bb":19,"h":77,"er":41,"hr":7,"era":6.55,"whip":1.7},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1929,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","gamesPlayed":4,"values":{"g":4,"gs":3,"w":1,"l":2,"sv":0,"ip":21,"so":6,"bb":8,"h":21,"er":11,"hr":2,"era":4.71,"whip":1.38},"rowScope":"team"}],"careerTotals":{"REG":{"g":174,"gs":99,"w":54,"l":46,"sv":6,"ip":932.1,"so":452,"bb":283,"h":960,"er":454,"hr":61,"era":4.38,"whip":1.33}}},{"id":"advanced","label":"Advanced (League-Relative)","columns":[{"key":"ops_plus","label":"OPS+","description":"On-base plus slugging vs the player's own season+league (100 = league average). Park-unadjusted; OBP uses a consistent (H+BB)/(AB+BB) rate. Higher is better.","format":"int","higherIsBetter":true},{"key":"era_plus","label":"ERA+","description":"Earned-run average vs the player's own season+league (100 = league average). Park-unadjusted. Higher is better.","format":"int","higherIsBetter":true}],"rows":[{"season":1921,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","values":{"ops_plus":71,"era_plus":86},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1922,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","values":{"ops_plus":158,"era_plus":95},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1923,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Detroit Stars","values":{"ops_plus":109,"era_plus":101},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1924,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","values":{"ops_plus":48,"era_plus":null},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1925,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","values":{"ops_plus":-48,"era_plus":null},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1927,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","values":{"ops_plus":18,"era_plus":null},"rowScope":"team"},{"season":1929,"seasonType":"REG","team":"Baltimore Black Sox","values":{"ops_plus":39,"era_plus":96},"rowScope":"team"}],"careerTotals":{"REG":{"ops_plus":74,"era_plus":94}},"advancedMeta":{"method":"computed in-house from MLB StatsAPI season batting/pitching lines, normalized to each player's own (season, league) baseline","formulas":{"era_plus":"100 * lgERA / playerERA (league ERA = 9 * ΣER / ΣIP over the season+league)","ops_plus":"100 * (OBP/lgOBP + SLG/lgSLG - 1)","career_era_plus":"innings-weighted league ERA / career ERA (B-Ref method)","career_ops_plus":"AB-weighted OBP & SLG against AB-weighted league rates"},"caveats":["PARK-UNADJUSTED: no park-factor data exists in the corpus, so these are league-relative but not park-adjusted (true B-Ref ERA+/OPS+ also divide by a park factor)","OBP baseline uses a consistent (H+BB)/(AB+BB) reached-base rate for BOTH player and league — the source feed carries no HBP or SF, so this is not the full (H+BB+HBP)/(AB+BB+HBP+SF) OBP; SLG is exact from the hit-type columns","league resolved from team code + season (most-recently-founded franchise existing by that season); the same resolver builds the baseline and looks up the player, so ratios stay internally coherent","a (season, league) bucket below the sample floor (3000 AB batting / 1000 IP pitching) yields null — no noisy baselines","regular season only; postseason lines are excluded from league baselines and metrics","AL and NL and each historical/Negro league are normalized separately — never blended across leagues or eras"]}}],"dataSources":["MLB StatsAPI (statsapi.mlb.com — official public league API; facts only, raw payloads not republished)"],"generatedAt":"2026-07-03T07:19:43.364Z"}