Head to head · Career pitching
Madison Bumgarner vs Max Scherzer
In 2023 Max Scherzer has been worth 2.3 more wins. Both lines are computed from play-by-play on the same constants, so they are measured the same way rather than quoted from two sources.
- Two of the 25 most valuable pitching careers on this site, 2005–2026, by dbWAR.
Career
Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2005 begins at 2005, not at his real first game.
| Statistic | Madison Bumgarner | Max Scherzer |
|---|---|---|
| G | 358 | 501 |
| GS | 355 | 492 |
| IP | 2,209.1 | 3,047.2 |
| W | 134 | 225 |
| L | 124 | 126 |
| SV | 0 | 0 |
| SO | 2,070 | 3,557 |
| BB | 544 | 814 |
| ERA | 3.47 | 3.29 |
| WHIP | 1.15 | 1.09 |
| K/9 | 8.4 | 10.5 |
| BB/9 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| HR/9 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| WAR | 36.4 | 66.4 |
2023 season
| Statistic | Madison Bumgarner | Max Scherzer |
|---|---|---|
| G | 4 | 27 |
| GS | 4 | 27 |
| IP | 16.2 | 152.2 |
| W | 0 | 13 |
| SO | 10 | 174 |
| ERA | 10.26 | 3.77 |
| FIP | 8.06 | 4.32 |
| WHIP | 2.40 | 1.12 |
| K/9 | 5.4 | 10.3 |
| BB/9 | 8.1 | 2.7 |
| FIP− | 186 | 100 |
| WAR | -0.5 | 1.8 |
Postseason
Box-score figures only: October is kept out of the season constants, so there is no wOBA, FIP or dbWAR for it.
| Statistic | Madison Bumgarner | Max Scherzer |
|---|---|---|
| G | 16 | 33 |
| GS | 14 | 28 |
| IP | 102.1 | 157.1 |
| W | 8 | 8 |
| SV | 1 | 1 |
| SO | 87 | 182 |
| BB | 18 | 62 |
| ERA | 2.11 | 3.78 |
| WHIP | 0.90 | 1.16 |
| K/9 | 7.7 | 10.4 |
| BB/9 | 1.6 | 3.5 |
More head to heads
The same seasons, measured against somebody else.
FIP uses the constant solved from this season’s own runs, and FIP− is park-adjusted against the same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page. To put these two beside a third, the comparison page takes up to four.