What is the slugging pct. for? What does it actually tell you?

Answer 1

It is a power rating indicator. This is the quick way I was taught, back when I was 7 years old...this helped me with my math skills quite a lot. Assign 1 Total Base (TB) for every single, 2 for every double, 3 for every triple and 4 for every HR, add all 4 #'s together and divide by the total # of at bats (TB/AB=SLG) Really all a Slg Pct will tell you is, the # of Total bases per At Bat

Answer 2

It shows the average number of bases that a player gets in every at-bat. In other words, someone with a .500 SLG% would average half a base per at bat.

There are several ways of doing this:
1 for 2 with a single (1 total base divided by 2 at bats)
1 for 4 with a double (2 TB's divided by 4 AB's)
1 for 6 with a triple (3 TB's divided by 6 AB's)
1 for 8 with a home run (4 TB's divided by 8 AB's)

Example:
Albert Pujols went 4 for 4 last night with 2 singles, a double and a home run. That comes out to 8 total bases (1+1+2+4) in 4 AB's. His SLG% last night was 2.000

Answer 3

slugging percentage takes into account all of the extra bases a batter gets. say they usually hit 3 singles out of every 10 at bats. that would be a .300 batting average. If they hit 3 double/triples/homers out of every 10 instead of just singles, that would be a batting average of .300, with a slugging percentage of .300 as well

Answer 4

It tells you how often a player gets an extra-base hit (out of the hits they do have). This is why a player can have a low batting average, but have a decent slugging percentage.

Answer 5

In baseball statistics, slugging average (often abbreviated SLG or SA) is a measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.

SLG = (h + d + 2t + 3hr) / (n_{AB}), where (n_{AB}), is the number of at-bats for a given player, and h, d, t, hr, are the number of hits, doubles, triples, and home runs, respectively. The following site provides information on calculation, total bases, total official at bats, slugging, and other baseball statistics: ESPN's MLB statistics glossary.

The term slugging percentage is a misnomer, as it is actually a calculation of average, not percent.

For example, in 1920, Babe Ruth was playing his first season for the New York Yankees. In 458 at bats, he had 172 hits including 73 singles, 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. The next year he slugged .846, and for 80 years those records went unbroken until 2001, when Barry Bonds hit 411 bases in 476 at-bats, bringing his average to .863, unmatched since.

Another equivalent way of calculating a batter's slugging average is SLG = (s + 2d + 3t + 4hr)/(n_{AB}),, where s, are the number of singles; so that each base touched counts as one. 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, and because it is somewhat insignificant data for judging a player's batting performance compared to more pertinent stats such as batting average, on base percentage, and extra base hits (or their derivative, slugging percentage). Taking any Major League Baseball player's statistics, which can be found at MLB.com's statistics website, you can calculate slugging percentage using both methods above. The numbers can then be compared to the slugging average listed on the MLB.com website. One site that uses this method is Baseball Almanac's Statistical Formulas Website, listed here to demonstrate the method by which some also correctly calculate slugging average.

Answer 6

It takes into account the players extra base hits, counting them as more than one hit
total bases
-------------- ===== slugging percentage
at bats

Answer 7

its total bases divided by at-bats so its singles plus 2*doubles plus 3*triples plus 4*homers. that tells you a how good of a power hitter a player is.

Answer 8

It's a power stat, basically I think it measures extra base hits.