marc@emory.UUCP (08/27/83)
Question is what components are used in deriving slugging percentage ie. what individual player stats are used and what kind of weight if any are assigned to each? -- Marcus (sb1!emory!marc) Emory Univ. Computing Center
alb@rabbit.UUCP (08/28/83)
Slugging percentage is calculated like batting average, except that instead of dividing the number of hits by the number of at-bats, you divide the number of bases reached as a result of hitting the ball by the number of at-bats (i.e. HR counts as 4, triple as 3, etc.). I'm not sure if a walk counts as 1 or not. Thus, the highest slugging percentage one can have is 4.000.
bernar@uwvax.ARPA (Bernardo Feijoo) (08/28/83)
To compute slugging percentage you give a weight of 4 to each homerun, 3 to each triple, 2 to each double and 1 to each single. Then you add them all up and divide the result by the number of at bats, getting the slugging percentage , i.e. slgg.% = 4*(#HR) + 3*(#3b) + 2*(#2b) + (#singles) )/(#at bats) Bernardo U. of Wisc.-Madison / CS dept. ...uwvax@bernar (Note: the max. value of the slugging perc. is 4.00, but you would have to hit them all out of the ball park.)
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (08/29/83)
Slugging percentage is calculated the same as the batting
average, except that where a single counts as 1 for 1, a double
counts as 2, a triple as 3 and a homer is 4. So someone who hits
homers every time up will have a slugging average of 4.000.
Dave Sherman
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Maybe the slugging average has changed, but aren't you supposed to subtract the total number of strike-outs from the number of at bats? Slugging average is a measure of how well you hit the ball, not how often. If you strike out it shouldn't be counted as "hitting the ball." This would also explain Kong's high SA. By the way, walks do not figure in the SA as having reached 1st base. Ken Kretsch (never mind the log-in)
petec@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/02/83)
Striking out is counted as 'not hitting the ball', and thus is a measure of
how well someone hits. Kingman's SP is high only because he hits lots of homers.
People may have invented new statistics that add or subtract certain stats in
order to come up with new or better way of comparison; this is not necessarily
bad. One of the more interesting books on baseball that I've seen in a long
time is 'Bill James Baseball Abstract', in which he does exactly this; it is
often amazing and insightful. However, SP is a 'pure' statistic, like BA, and
is not fiddled with by adding this and subtracting that.
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