what is a player's ERA (in baseball) composed of? and what does it mean?
2007-05-26 09:26:38 · 17 answers · asked by YanksFan223 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
ERA is a statistic used in baseball. It's a stat that only pitcher's have. (That's the best way I can put it. My sentence structure sucks.) It stands for Earned Run Average.
It basically means the number of runs the opposing team earned multiplied by the number of innings in the game divided by the number innings pitched.
It's a pitching stat. The lower, the better.
If a pitcher has an ERA of say...2.36 or something, you know they're a good pitcher and it'll be hard to score runs off of him.
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2007-05-26 09:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ERA- Earned Run Average
ERA is the average runs a pitcher would give up per 9 innings pitched.
equation: ERA= 9 x (earned runs allowed divided by inning pitched)
2007-05-26 09:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by ur killing me smalls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ERA in baseball is "Earned Run Average: used to chart effectiveness of the pitcher. For instance if he pitched 9 inning game and only one run scored which was a home run, his earned run average would be 1.00
Should two runs be scored but one was the result of an error which allowed the run to score, then his ERA would still be 1.00----lots of other combinations but that is the basic.
2007-05-26 09:33:25 · answer #3 · answered by glenn t 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ERA or Earned Run Average is the Average amount of runs a pitcher allows over 9 innings. So if a pitcher has pitched 9 innings and allowed 1 run his ERA is 1.00. If a pitcher has pitched 1 inning and allowed 1 run his ERA is 9.00. If a Pitcher has pitched 90 innings an allowed 120 runs his ERA is 1.33
2007-05-26 09:34:19 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ERA means Earned Run Average. The earned run average is based on how many runs per each outing a pitcher gives up and how many innings he pitches as well based on a nine inning game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_run_average
2007-05-26 09:39:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earned run average. It's calculated by multiplying the number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher by 9, then dividing by the number of innings pitched.
Example: If a pitcher gives up 5 earned runs in 7 innings, you multiply 5 by 9, then divide by 7 or 6.43. It's one way to measure a pitcher's effectiveness against opposing teams.
2007-05-26 09:35:31 · answer #6 · answered by crazydave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ERA, earned run average, is the amount of earned runs (don't ask unless you REALLY want to know) a pitcher has allowed, normalized per nine innings.
ERA == (ER * 9) / innings pitched
Lower is better.
2007-05-26 09:37:01 · answer #7 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
era is earned run average. in a game era would be the average amount of runs given up by the pitchers. so if a pitcher gives up 3.50 runs, it means that the pitcher gave up 3 and a half runs.
2007-05-26 09:51:37 · answer #8 · answered by Mets Lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ERA stands for Earned Run Average which is based upon the number of earned runs you gave up and your strikeouts I believe.
2007-05-26 14:50:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ERA
E=Earned
R=Run
A=Average
ERA=Earned Run Average
2007-05-26 09:31:44 · answer #10 · answered by Canes & Bruins 09-10 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋