I was looking at the Southern League stats today and noticed that one of the Lookouts OBP was lower than his batting average. Can that really happen or is it just an error?
I was looking at the Southern League stats today and noticed that one of the Lookouts OBP was lower than his batting average. Can that really happen or is it just an error?
More sacrifice flies than walks.
For example: Jon Doe is 5-for-5 on the season with 0 walks and one sac fly. His batting average is 1.000 but his OBP is .833
Drew Anderson has a sac hit, thats why.
Deleted due to stupidity!!!
Last edited by Triples; 04-10-2007 at 10:58 AM.
For any other ignoramouses that don't understand how to calculate OBP; here's the definition.
ON BASE PERCENTAGE - Originally, hits plus walks plus hit by pitch, divided by at-bats plus walks plus hit by pitch - ." When OBP was adopted as an official stat in 1984, the denominator was expanded to include sacrifice flies. The effect is to penalize a batter in his on base percentage by giving him a plate appearance while at the same time crediting him in his batting average by deleting the plate appearance.
Board Moderators may, at their discretion and judgment, delete and/or edit any messages that violate any of the following guidelines: 1. Explicit references to alleged illegal or unlawful acts. 2. Graphic sexual descriptions. 3. Racial or ethnic slurs. 4. Use of edgy language (including masked profanity). 5. Direct personal attacks, flames, fights, trolling, baiting, name-calling, general nuisance, excessive player criticism or anything along those lines. 6. Posting spam. 7. Each person may have only one user account. It is fine to be critical here - that's what this board is for. But let's not beat a subject or a player to death, please. |