I thought it was only the actual hits that count towards your average but someone told me that you add walks and being hit by pitches also. Is this true?
2007-03-12 19:01:40 · 18 answers · asked by evie ♥'s her Dodgers 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
they do not count as an at bat...it's a seperate stat. If you been at the plate 4 times and got walked twice and hit by pitch once and struck out you went 0-1
2007-03-12 19:06:44 · answer #1 · answered by jgmakeover 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok its kinda wierd, theres actually a lot of rules/exceptions, theres a great website to help u out with everything, plus it's got tons of links if u can't find what ur looking for...this is what it said about batting averages...:
Batting Average
(total hits) / (official at-bats)
At-bats do not include walks, sacrifice flies, sacrifice bunts, obstruction calls, catcher's interference, or being hit by a pitch.
If a player makes it safely on base due to an error, it is an at-bat, but not a hit.
P.S. a dropped third strike by the catcher is an error!
hope that helped u...if ur doing more stats google the stat with calculator after it, and i bet theres a lot of calculators out there that doo it for u...if ur a coach and do stats a lot i suggest getting a palm pilot and buy the baseball scorebook program... that will automatically organize and keep track of all the stats, the lineups, and even all ur oponents...plus u just take it home and sync it into the computer which has a program to print up stats sheets at the end of the year in stuff... its great theres a lot of bonus features like pitching and hitting charts that are optional, but its a must have if u do a lot of scouting...
2007-03-12 21:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by frank_the_tank15 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, a player's batting average is only the number of hits divided by the number of at-bats. Walks and hit by pitches count for on-base percentage.
2007-03-13 10:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by dude_in_disguise2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When calculating a players batting average, you divide the "hits" by the number of "at bats". You DO NOT include walks, hit by the pitch, or sacrifices as "at bats". You DO include "errors" as an "at bat".
To clarify a sacrifice, any time a batter makes an out that advances or scores the runner, he "sacrificed" himself for the good of the team. Therefore, he is not penalized with an "at bat".
One stat that had me confused for a while is "Slugging percentage". In this case, you divide the total number of bases that a batter has accumulated by his number of "at bats". For example, during the week, a batter hits 2 home runs, 2 doubles, and 4 singles for 16 total bases. If he came to bat 26 times during the week, he would have a slugging percentage of .615. By the way, his batting average would be .308.
2007-03-12 19:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by shaboom2k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined as the ratio of hits to at bats.
Walks and hit by pitch are not part of the batting average of the player. But your question is really interesting, because: walks and hit by pitch count for On base percentage (OBP), instead they are not official at bats. So they also increase your slugging % (SLG %), which is the following:
In baseball statistics, slugging average (abbreviated SLG) is the most popular measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
SLG = (1B + (2 x 2B) + (3 x 3B) + (4 x HR))/ AB , where AB is the number of at-bats for a given player, and 1B, 2B, 3B, and HR are the number of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs, respectively.
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 (73 × 1) + (36 × 2) + (9 × 3) + (54 × 4) = 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.
2007-03-13 01:52:23 · answer #5 · answered by FG 82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hit by pitches and walks do not count toward your batting average. It does count for on base percentage.
2007-03-12 21:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by skisram 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, although those count when you're figuring on-base percentage. Batting average is simple: hits divided by at bats. Or, if you want it a bit more complicated,
Hits / (Total Plate Appeances - walks - Hit By Pitch - Sacrifice Flies - Sacrifice Bunts)
2007-03-12 19:19:43 · answer #7 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, walks and being hit by pitches don't count when calculating a player's batting average. Neither does reaching a base on an error, reaching base on catcher's interference, and so on. (I should memorize the list of ways a player can reach first base!)
On-base percentage (OBP) DOES include walks and being hit by pitches.
2007-03-13 07:57:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are added to your statistics only but not your batting average. That is why if someone walks in a game and we will say had a hit and a groundout, the boxscore would be
ab r h bb so 2b 3b hr rbi hbp etc
2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 --->
2007-03-12 23:15:16 · answer #9 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, walks and hit by pitches do not count toward batting average...why do people have to give such long answers and actually answer stuff that wasn't even asked.
I believe the question is do BB's and HBP's count in the batting average....not what is included in the average and what isn't....maybe I misread it though.
2007-03-13 04:59:09 · answer #10 · answered by d-town 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋