How do you read average stat in baseball?

Question

That's what I was asking, still don't get it

.350 means the hitter hit the ball 350 times during the season. If this is the case why the average is it times 1000.

Answer 1

The batting average is hits divided by at bats, and is normally written out to 3 decimal places. If you have 1 hit in 3 at bats, your batting average is .333. You could say your average is "one-third" or "thirty-three and a third percent", but since BA's are usually published to 3 decimal places, people usually give the decimal number, but don't bother mentioning the decimal point, not "point three thirty three" but just "three thirty three."

When someone is "batting a thousand" their average is actually 1.000, or one hit per at bat.

Answer 2

It's a percentage - a .300 average means that the batter hits the ball 3 times for every 10 at bats (or 300 every 1000 at bats, or 120 times every 400 at bats, or whatever the actual number of hits is). The formula is:

Batting Average = Hits / At-Bats

Answer 3

Read the batting average as if it were multiplied by 1000.

So, 0.350 is read "three hundred fifty", or just "three fifty".

And 1.000 is "a thousand", yes I know it seems silly.

Is that what you were asking? Or were you asking how it was calculated?

Answer 4

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