Of course we all know that a BB doesn't count as an at-bat when calculating batting average. It seems to me that it should count as an at-bat when calculating OBP. Anyone know for sure?
2007-07-05 14:58:35 · 12 answers · asked by summitbound 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Basically. When you calculate it you add hits, walks, and hit by pitch and divide by at bats, walks, hit by pitch, and sacrafice fly.
So technically it is not an at bat, but it is added with it, so it practically is.
2007-07-05 15:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by Ambrose 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The formula for On-Base Percentage is VERY confusing. It's:
Hits + Walks + Hit By Pitch
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At-Bats + Walks + Hit By Pitch + Sacrifice Flies
Let's look at Barry Bonds in 2007. He's got 60 hits, 116 walks (you DON'T count intentional walks when calculating OBP) and was hit by a pitch twice.
Bonds ALSO has 197 at-bats and 1 sacrifice fly. Now, let's plug it all in!
60+86+2
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197+86+2+1
Add it all together and it comes out to this:
148/286
Divide it, and you come up with .51748.
Therefore, Bonds has an OBP of .517 this year (you don't round up to .5175 < only if it's past this point, would you round up).
Hope I helped!
2007-07-05 15:10:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've got the terminology wrong, but you're essentially correct.
A walk doesn't count as an at-bat, but it does count as a plate appearance. And it's plate appearances - not just at-bats - that are used to calculate OBP.
2007-07-05 15:11:21 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Walks are counted when figuring on-base percentage, and are technically categorized as "plate appearances".
At-bats are a type of plate appearance.
Plate appearances are essentially all completed visits to the batter's box.
2007-07-05 15:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-20 00:11:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For OBP it counts as an at bat
2007-07-05 16:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Pat D 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are correct. Otherwise, Barry Bonds might have an OBP some weeks of over 100 percent ... which is pretty impossible.
2007-07-05 15:04:10 · answer #7 · answered by wdx2bb 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i think a bb counts as a plate appearance and yes, it is counted when they do on base percentage.
2007-07-05 16:22:30 · answer #8 · answered by sakhi93 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know IBBs didn't count.
To put the formula in simpler terms,
(Times on Base - Intentional Walks) / (Plate Appearences - Intentional Walks)
2007-07-05 16:03:15 · answer #9 · answered by TK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You assume wrong, grasshopper..a walk is considered a plate appearance, not and an at-bat.
2007-07-05 15:02:21 · answer #10 · answered by Kelly P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋