How's the 'slugging percentage' in baseball figured?
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SLG = [(1*hit)+(2*double)+(3*triple)+(4*HR)]/at bat Slugging percentage is defined like total bases divided by at bats. visit for more information www.factbug.org More important than statistics is the game. Enjoy it!!!
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Total bases Divided by number of at bats.  \nExample:\n\n253 total bases (100 singles, 25 doubles, 1 triple, 25 home runs) / 543 at bats = .466 slugging %
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Depending on the side of the ball you come from... Based on the way things are going?  Payroll  Because you can buy a great team and build a winning tradition.  The team may not win the World Series every year but they will always be in contention.\n\nIf you want real stats from a analitical point on players:\n\nTraditionally, statistics like batting average for batters (the number of hits divided by the number of at bats) and earned run average (approximately the number of runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings) have governed the statistical world of baseball. However, the advent of sabermetrics brought an onslaught of new statistics that better gauge a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year.\n\nSome sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world. Among statistics that do an excellent job of measuring a batter's performance, On-base plus slugging (OPS) is the easiest to calculate. It adds the hitter's on base percentage ([hits + walks + number of times hit by pitches] divided by [number of times at bat + walks + number of times hit by a pitch + number of sacrifice flies]) to his or her slugging percentage (total bases divided by at bats). Some argue that the OPS formula is flawed and that more weight should be shifted towards OBP (on base percentage). Regardless, OPS still stands as the most direct means of evaluating a hitter's performance using readily available statistics.
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Divide earned runs allowed by innings pitched and multiply by 9
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There are many things that can happen in baseball that are counted oddly in the stats. Walks dont count as at bats, neither do sacrifice hits. Fielders choices, reaching on errors or dropped third strikes all count as outs even though you reached base. When a batter is hit by a pitch it also doesnt count as an at bat. So to calculate batting average you would simply divide hits by at bats. To calculate OBP you would divide hits+walks+hbp by at bats+walks+HBP+sacrifice flies\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_base_percentage
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Greetings from the Yahoo Brain in New York City!  \nHope you're watching the live Answers webcast at http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\n\nI know many teams employ a seemingly random rotation between the second baseman and the shortstop, so as to keep the opposing batters guessing as to where the hole would be.\n\nHope this helps!\n\n--J.
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Okay, this will seem a little bit confusing, since it involves mathmatical formulas. \nIn baseball statistics, slugging average (or slugging percent) (often abbreviated SLG or SA) is a measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats. \nThe formula is SLG= (h + d + 2t + 3hr) / (n_{AB}) \n- h stands for hits, d stands for doubles, t is triples, ht is homeruns, and n_{ab} is at bats for a certain player. \nHere's an example of slugging percentage:\nIn 1920, Babe Ruth was playing his first season for the New York Yankees. In 458 at bats, he had 172 hits, 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs, which brings the total base count to (172 × 1) + (36 × 1) + (9 × 2) + (54 × 3) = 388. He had 458 at bats, so his total number of bases (388) divided by his total at-bats (458) is .847, his slugging average.\nAnother way of doing slugging percentage SLG = (s + 2d + 3t + 4h)/(n_{AB}), where s, are the number of singles; so that each base touched counts as one. \n(MLB.com and many major statistical sources often don't note the number of singles a player has hit both because they assume that the reader can quickly figure it out)\n\nSlugging average is actually extremely useful in finding many different statistical numbers for batters. Long after it was first invented, the slugging average gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage to form a very good measure of a player's overall production. Allen Barra and George Ignatin were apparently the first to combine the two statistics, multiplying them together to form what is now known as "SLOB" (Slugging × On-Base). Bill James applied this principle to his Runs Created formula several years later (and perhaps independently), essentially multiplying SLOB × At-Bats (the actual formula for Runs Created is: RC = [(Hits + Walks)(TotalBases)] / [AtBats + Walks]). In 1984, Pete Palmer and John Thorn developed perhaps the most widespread means of combining slugging and on-base average: OPS. "OPS" simply stands for "on-base plus slugging", and is a simple addition of the two values. While less accurate than SLOB and Runs Created, OPS is extremely easy to calculate, and has become the unofficial shorthand form of player evaluation in recent years.\n\nThe term "slugging percentage" is technically incorrect. SLG in fact measures an AVERAGE, not a percent
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You take the number of earned runs and divide by the number of innings pitched. Then multiply by 9.\n\nYou multiply by 9 because an ERA is the average number of earned runs a pitcher gives up per full game.
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....just divide the guy's hits and their at-bats
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It's kind of easy to figure out once you understand it. I still have to look back through an inning to figure it out.\n\nIf a runner reaches base because of an error than if that runner eventually scores, it is considered an unearned run.\n\nAlso, you have to imagine that that runner is out. Therefore, if there were two outs when the error happened, then any runs scored after that play would be unearned because you assume that the fielder would have fielded the ball cleanly and got the out.. No matter what.\n\nIf there are less than two outs, then at the end of the inning you look back and figure what would have happened if the runner had been out. \n\nThere are also errors that just allow a runner an extra base (like a throwing error on a play at the plate and the runner who hit the ball advances to second or third base because of the error).\n\nIn this case, you have to figure that the runner would still have been at the original base and then go through the inning and see if he would have scored.\n\nIt's a complicated thing, but if you understand it and have a scorebook in front of you, it's pretty easy to figure it out at the end of the inning.
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SLG = (s + 2d + 3t + 4hr) / (n_{AB}). In other words, Slugging Percentage is total bases divided by at-bats.
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As stated before: Walk + Hits / Innings Pitched. You want to see something 1.5 or less. Anything over 2.0 (meaning they walk or give up a hit to two batters per inning) and you know their ERA is going to rise as well.
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(earned runs)*(9)/(innings pitched)
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I think it's when the pitcher comes in with a 3-run lead or less, or perhaps when the lead is 4 and there are runners on base. Let me check.....\n\n============================================================\nEDIT: OK, here is some info:\n\nRule 10.20 credits a pitcher with a save when he meets all three of the following conditions: \n(1) He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his club; and \n(2) He is not the winning pitcher; and \n(3) He qualifies under one of the following conditions: \n(a) He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches for at least one inning; or \n(b) He enters the game, regardless of the count, with the potential tying run either on base, or at bat, or on deck (that is, the potential tying run is either already on base or is one of the first two batsmen he faces); or \n(c) He pitches effectively for at least three innings. No more than one save may be credited in each game.\n============================================================\n\nI guess if the reliever pitches the last 3 innings and came in up by 4 (and didn't blow the lead), then he can earn a save.
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Easy enough:\n\nERA= (ER/IP)*9\n\nER = Earned Runs\nIP = Innings Pitched\nERA = average number of runs allowed per nine innings
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OPS is a players on-base percentage plus his slugging average.   spotts1701 already told you how to calculate OBP; Slugging average is total bases (i.e., singles+2*doubles+3*triples +4*HR) divided by total at-bats.
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Different kinds of statistics: the pitcher gets credit for the out as a pitching statistic; the fielder(s) get credit for it as a defensive statistic.  In the former case, the pitcher gets credit for not allowing the batter to get a clean hit; in the latter, the fielder gets credit for defensive work.\n\nThink of it in the same way as runs and RBI's: if Player A is on 3rd base and scores on Player B's hit, both of them get "credit" for the run: A gets credit for a run and B for an RBI.  Same event, different stats.