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Tim Olson

Age
27
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 2"
Weight
200 lb
Born
August 1, 1978 in Grand Forks, ND, United States
MLB debut
May 30, 2004

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dbWAR
-.0
Regular season, 2005 only
PA
3
AVG
.000
OBP
.333
SLG
.000
wRC+
33
100 = avg

Tim Olson was a position player for the Colorado Rockies. In 2005 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 3 plate appearances in 3 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .264. He reached base at a .333 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .333, 55.5% lower than the league mark of .749. He made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 33 wRC+ puts his offence 67% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.2 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2005 regular season.

wRC+33
wOBA.237
ISO.000
BB%33.3%
WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2005. These terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-0.2Ballpark-0.0Baserunning-0.0Double plays+0.0Position-0.1Replacement+0.1
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.

Trend
2005COL33000012.000.333.000.000—33.3%66.7%.237-0.233-0.0—

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2005. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP210011.000.500.000.35550.0%
vs RHP110001.000.000.000.000100.0%

Situational hitting

How Tim Olson hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by
By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations3——————.000.333.000.237
Bases empty · thin2100011.000.500.000.355
Runner on first · thin1100001.000.000.000.000
Runners on · thin1100001.000.000.000.000

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2005.

Not in the 2005 data: pitch locations, first recorded in 2007; exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.