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re: SEC stats 4/15 - LSU leading in ERA, Fields beast mode

Posted on 4/15/12 at 7:18 pm to
Posted by TXTigerDad
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2009
227 posts
Posted on 4/15/12 at 7:18 pm to
Boh already competently answered the question of why Fields's on-base percentage is lower than his batting average (a rare occurrence indeed), but I just wanted to embellish his answer slightly. From the omniscient Wikipedia:

"For small numbers of at-bats, it is possible (though unlikely) for a player's on-base percentage to be lower than his batting average (H/AB). This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies (e.g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be .333, but his on-base percentage would be .286). The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of .184 and an on-base percentage of .181."

On-base percentage is calculated using this formula:

OBP = {H+BB+HBP} / {AB+BB+HBP+SF}
Posted by Boh
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2009
12357 posts
Posted on 4/15/12 at 10:59 pm to
I guess that's what I was trying to explain
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