[NoOne]

you give a bit more weight to position they played as well as their stats.

in real life a SS can get in with lower numbers than a first baseman.

e.g. you will never see a 1st baseman with Ozzie Smith's numbers in the HoF.

(this excludes early years, if an exception exists.)

for that matter, ozzie smith's #'s would never make my HoF at any position, lol.

war isn't an 'answer' it should only be a piece of the puzzle. you are better off looking at rates of success and comparing to baselines. it's a poor metric to be using to compare players in an absolute way. with a large sample like a career, ops+ and era+ are better.

e.g ozzie smith, again: war looks good, but his ops+ clearly shows him as a severely sub-average hitter compared to 'average' and even worse when you compare to a HoF baseline. he is a good example of popularity getting you into the HoF