My husband is coaching a little league team and he doesn't know how to figure batting averages.  Can anyone help him?
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Hits&#92;at bats\n\nBe sure to take into account though that:\nWalks, Hit-by-pitch, and sacrifices are not ABs.\n\nAlso that it's only a hit if you reach safely and no one else gets out advancing to the next base.  (ex.  Bob is on first, Ken hits the ball.  Bob gets out at second and Ken is now if first)  This is called a fielder's choice.\n\nAlso reaching safely on an error is not a hit.\n\nBoth of the above count as at-bats without hits.\n\nNow if he is coaching little league.  Depending on the age you might not want to bother with errors and just credit the kid with a hit.
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Pitcher's statistic: Ratio of strikeouts (k) to walks (bb).  If a pitcher has struckout 10 batters, and walked 5, his k/bb = 10/5, or 2.0.  \n\nIt's an indication of his command, if he strikes out more batters than he walks, he has good control of his pitches.
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Roto leagues are the ones that started this all. They run season long - instead of being reset each week.\n\nOkay - so we have cumulative stats from the start of the season.\n\nThen, for each stat (ie, HRs, RBIs, Wins, Saves...) the teams in the league are sorted by how they did in that stat. Then they are given points based on that order.\n\nSay you have 10 teams. The team with the most HRs gets 10 points. The team with the least, gets 1 point. Then the team with the most RBIs (might be a different team than the team with the most HRs) gets 10 points and the team with the least gets 1 point.\n\nDo that for all the stats in the league. And then sum up the points for each stat, and that is your roto score.\n\nSo, some days, you could knock in 10 HRs but your score won't change (if it doesn't give you more cumulative HRs than the team ahead of you) or you could knock in 2 and pass  3 teams ahead of you and score big points.\n\nIt is all based on relative performance, across the league. So you kind of need to pay more attention to every team, instead of the one team you're playing against that week. \n\nIt is a unique experience - maybe try a mid-season leagu to get your feet we.
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It depends on what the coach wants.  I would make a chart with each skill on it.  Serve, pass, set, hit, block, etc.  Then on the other side of the chart have spaces for each player, then when I player does something in the game, you just have to put a mark in the box.  You can use use o, for a bad thing, like a missed serve, or a + for a good thing like an ace.  Then if they just get a serve in put a 1.  The coach should be able to give you some ideas.  He or she will know what they want out of the stats and that will help you know how to take them.
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1)single\n2)double\n3)triple\n4)HR\n5)error\n6)wild pitch\n7)passed ball\n8)steal home\n9)balk\n\nkinda cheap to count the 4 different types of hits but I couldn't think of any other way to get 9. \n Squeeze play wouldn't work because with 2 outs you'd only need to get the out at first and inning is over and if he makes it to first then it's a single so it's no different.\n Sac Fly?  there are 2 outs though someone else already pointed that out.\n \nWhat about catcher's interference?  Does the man on third get a base or do you have to be forced to move to get to on that type of play?\n\nhmmm...that's all I can think of right now.
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Phew, that took some searching, but I think I may have your answer!\n\n"A. Gonzalez" plays for the Boston Red Sox. On September 19th, 2006 his seasonal batting average hit ".253."\n\nClick here to see: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=260919102\n\nHope that's what you needed!
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Tell them that becuase they are the littler school that when they play those other bigger schools that they have no pressure on them. Tell them that because they are not expected to beat the bigger schools (which i am asuming is the case) the bigger school has to play harder, all you have to do is go out, play good ball, and play smart. If your pitchers are struggling then tell them that they need to relax and make the batters hit the ball, let their defense do the work for them, tell your pitchers that you dont want strikeouts, you want groundouts and pop ups. Tell your batters to be more patent at the plate, work the count tell them that if they are up with a man on 3rd and 1 out to just put the ball in play, you dont need a double or a triple or a homerun, just groundball or a fly ball to the outfield. Have your bigger and better hitters try to hit the hard ground , it will make them hit the top of the ball and drive it and will also put back spin on the ball so it will carry on line drives. Hope this helps your buddy out.
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It's just like batting average except that a double counts as 2 hits, a triple counts as 3 and a homerun counts as 4. Basically, it's bases-per-atbat (not including walks or hit-by-pitch) whereas batting average is hits-per-atbat.
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In little league you only need one pitch.  That is a fastball.  Forget about the ohters.  The real art to being a successful little league pitcher is to throw strikes.  If you can throw 2 strikes out of every 3 pitches then you will do great.
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it's the # of bases per at bat.... add up the # of total bases (1 for single, 2 for double, 3 for triple, 4 for homerun) and divide by the number of at bats
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Easy way is to draw a tree and you get the following combinations: (W=win, L=lose)\n\nWWW\nWWL\nWLW\nWLL\n\nLWW\nLWL\nLLW\nLLL\n\nSo, the prob of the reds winning 2 and losing 1 is\nP(WWL)+P(WLW)+P(LWW)\n=(0.53*0.53*0.47)+(0.53*0.47*0.53)+(0.47*0.53*0.53)\n=0.396\n\nProb of Cubs winning 2 and losing 1\n= Prob of reds losing 2 and winning 1\n=P(LLW)+P(LWL)+P(WLL)
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Pitcher - 1\nCatcher - 2\nFirst Base - 3\nSecond Base - 4\nThird Base - 5\nShortstop - 6\nLeft Field - 7\nCenter Field - 8\nRight Field - 9\n\nWhen announcers say 4-6-3 double play, it means second baseman to shortstop to first baseman and they got two outs. These numbers are meant for keeping score in a scorebook. That's why the announcers say it. If you're listening on the radio, it's much easier for you to keep score if they say the numbers for you.\n\nSome common double plays are:\n6-4-3 (SS-2B-1B)\n4-6-3 (2B-SS-1B)\n5-4-3 (3B-2B-1B)\n1-2-3 (bases loaded) (P-C-1B)\n3-6-3 (1B-SS-1B)\n3-6-1 (assuming the first baseman is going towards second when he fields it) (1B-SS-P)
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He can pitch all 6 but he can not pitch more than 6 per week.  Most only pitch about 3 per game though since little league games only last 6 innings.
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1.Uggla\n2. Colon will be back soon, and Matsui is out for season. not sure about the other 2\n3. It depends on how your other starting pitchers are doing. (I personally would keep him).\n4. No do not worry about 2ND base at all\n5. I have the same issue-If you look at the other catchers he is a little above average and he will get better.\n6. except for your relievers very good\n7. You said hitting team so batting average very good, runs also are very good, good RBI.You have a lot of speed but you are not likely to win Home Runs.
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Try one of these -- http://www.baseballtips.com/strikezone.html
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A batting average of .350 means that Kyler hits an average of 350 out of 1000 at bats.  This is equivalent to 350/1000 or 35%.\n\nAssuming he keeps this rate, it is a simple multiplication to estimage the number of times he will hit.\n\n20 times at bat x 0.350 batting average = 7 hits\n\nYou can also do this as a pair of ratios:\n350 ..... x\n------ = ----\n1000 ... 20\n\nCross multiplying:\n1000x = 7000\nx = 7000/1000\nx = 7 hits
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The statistics which are most important are the ones which the league require. You need to look these up on your league page as it should say which statistics they are counting on. The best way to draft ur players is to get a good mix of everything... Here are the common stats people measure:\n\nBatters:\nRBI: Runs batted in... the higher the better. Good RBIers have 100 during a season. \nBest of 2005:\nDavid Ortiz (1B): 148\nMark Texiera (1B): 144\nManny Ramierz (OF): 144\nAlex Rodriguez (3B): 130\nAndrew Jones (OF): 128\nGary sheffield (OF): 123\n\n\nBatting Average: The higher the better. Make sure you don't choose players which have a high average but have only played a few games (if you are looking at 2005 stats). Choose those that have played on a consisten basis and have had at least 300 at bats. A decent batting average would be around .280... anything above .300 is very good.\nDerrek Lee (1B): .335\nMichael Young (SS): .331\nPlaci Polaco (2B/3B): .331\nALbert Pujols (1B): .330\nMiguel Cabrera (3B/OF): .323\nMouise Alou (OF): .321\nAlex Rodriguez (3B): .321\nTodd Helton (1B): .320\n\nRuns: The higher the better. Good runners get 100+ per year. \nThe best runners in the league last year were:\nAlbert Pujols (1B): 129\nAlex Rodriguez (3B): 124\nDerek Jeter (SS): 122\nDerek Lee (1B): 120\nDavid Ortiz (1B): 120\nJohnny Damon (OF): 117\n\nHomerun: The higher the better. Good homerun batters hit 30+ a year\nAndrew Jones (OF): 51 \nAlex Rodriguez (3B): 48\nDavid Ortiz (1B): 47\nDerek Lee (1B): 46\nManny Ramirez (OF): 45\nMark Texiera (1B): 43\nAlbert Pujols (1B): 41\n\nStolen Bases: The Higher the better.. There are very few crazy stealers out there... Most of the top ones get 30+ but  soemone getting 15-20 isn't bad either. Just makes sure u have one top stelaer and a couple stealers that are in the 15-20 zone. \nChone Figgins (2B/3B/OF): 62\nJose Reyes (SS): 60\nScott Podsednik (OF):59\nJuan Pierre (OF): 57\nCarl Crawford (OF): 46\nRafael Furcal (SS): 46\nJimmy Rollins (SS): 41\nJulio Lugo (SS): 39\n\n\nPitching:\nWins: The higher the number of wins the better\nDontre Willis: 22\nBartolo Colon: 21\nChris Carpenter: 21\nRoy Owswalt: 20\nChris Capuano: 18\nCliff Lee: 18\nJon Garland: 18\n\nStrikeouts: the higher the better\nJohan Santana: 238\nJake Peavy: 216\nChris Carpenter: 213\nRandy Johnson: 211\nPedro Martiez: 208\nBret Myers: 208\nDoug Davis: 208\nCarlos Zambrano: 202\n\nERA: The lower the better. Make sure for Starting pitchers they have pitched at least 150 innings. Relief pitchers should have pitched around 60+\n\nRelief Pitchers: Mariano Rivera (1.38), Billy Wagner (1.51), Hudson Street (1.72), Derek Turnbow (1.74), Chad Cordero (1.82)\n\nStarting pitchers: Roger Clemens (1.82 but he may not play this season), Andy Pettite (2.39), Roy Halladay (2.41), Rich Harden (2.53), Pedro Martinez (2.82), Chris Carpenter (2.83)\n\nWHIP: the lower the better. Same rule as ERA for no of innings played\nRelief: Billy wagner (0.84), Mariano Rivera (0.87), Bob Howry (0.89), Cliff polite (0.94), J. sperir (0.95)\n\nStarting pitchers: Pedro Martinez (0.95), Roy Halladay (0.96), Johan Sanata (0.97), Roger Clemens (1.01), Andy Pettite (1.03), Jake Peavy (1.04)\n\nSaves: The higher the better. You get these off of relief pitchers...\nChad Cordero 47\nFransisco Rodriguez 45\nBob wickman: 45\nTrevor Hoffman: 43\nJoe Nathan: 43\nMariano Rivera: 43\nBrad Lidge: 42\n\nHope this helps!... This is for the typical 5x5 league. Others which people might add in are: \nPitching:\nk/9 innings: no of stikeouts per nine innings (The higher the better) \nLosses (the lower the better) \nIP: innings pitched, the higher hte better\n\nHitters: \nStrikeouts: the lower the better\nWalks: The higher the better\nSlugging percentage: The higher the better\nOBPS: the higher the better (Onbase plus slugging percetnage)\non base percentage: higher the better