How is slugging percentage determined

Most player stats don't include singles, but it's easy to figure out from other stats. Then subtract your answer from the total number of Hits to get the number of Singles. Calculate the number of bases. Divide your answer by at bats. Divide total bases by the number of at bats to get the slugging percentage.

On average, he scored a little more than one base for every two at bats. Method 2. Find the total bases with a faster method. The method above is the easiest to understand, but requires extra math to find the number of singles. This works because one base per Hit takes care of all the singles. Since this also awards one base for each double, you only need to add 1 more base per double to find the total.

Similarly, add two extra bases for triples, and three extra for home runs. Divide by at bats. Just as before, the slugging percentage is equal to the total bases divided by at bats. Method 3. Baseball statisticians don't consider this accurate, but it's a quick and easy way to compare offensive power. Adjust slugging percentage for league.

This statistic was invented for the baseball encyclopedia Total Baseball , and is rarely used elsewhere. The stats are sometimes adjusted to factor in differences between parks as well.

My son is a freshman in high school, he has had 78 at bats with only two strikeouts. Does that count for anything? Miguel Cabrera's slash line was.

That's insanely good, as expected, as Cabrera led the majors in all three categories. The major league average slash line last year was. You can tell a lot from a slash line.

White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez ,. I'm going to use slash lines going forward starting with the footnote below. If you forget what they are, click on the Glossary at the top of the page. That's not true. Ruth hit his th career home run in , at which time he vaulted past Roger Connor , a first baseman, primarily for the New York Giants, who hit homers during a year career from to Cravath was the 20th century record holder, with between and He hit all but two of his home runs for the Phillies, who played at Baker Bowl, a hitter's park that was only feet down the right field line, though with a Green Monster-esque 60 foot fence in right.

Cravath, though, was a right-handed hitter. Babe Ruth led the league 13 times , except - the most times which any batter of pitcher led the league in any major category. Long after it was first invented, the slugging percentage gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage OBP to form a very good measure of a player's overall production.

A predecessor metric was developed by Branch Rickey in Rickey, in Life Magazine , suggested that combining OBP with what he called "extra base power" would give a better indicator of player performance than typical Triple Crown stats. EBP was a predecessor to slugging average. More AL Central News ».

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