Baseball Statistics Calculator

Statistics play an important role in summarizing baseball performance and evaluating players in the sport. Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics. Numerical facts and data are the lifeblood of baseball.

Slugging Percentage:

Another great statistic to be measured by. SLG% means how many total bases touched per at-bat.

On-Base + Slugging (OPS):

ESPN has started showing OPS during broadcasts, and there is a good reason for it. OPS can tell you about two important qualities in one stat: the ability to reach base, and to hit for power. While some think OBP is more important and therefore should be weighted, it still does a good job of evaluating a player. The gold standard in the major leagues is an OPS of 1.000.

Stolen Base Percentage:

Merely seeing how many stolen bases a player has does not tell us he is a great base stealer. We need to see his success rate to be sure he does not cause more outs than necessary, because the stolen bases is a very risky move, and usually you need to be successful at stealing bases 80% of the time for it to be beneficial. To calculate Stolen Base Percentage: Number of Successful Stolen Bases (divided by) Number of Stolen Base Attempts

Base On Balls Percentage:

A great stat for measuring a player's batting "eye" or how respected a hitter is by pitchers. As I have said in my batting article, walks are paramount to success in baseball. If you can get a decent amount of walks, you can contribute to wearing down the pitcher's arm and scoring runs.

Walks/Strikeout Ratio:

This is a great measure of plate discipline. Generally, if a player has more walks than strikeouts, he has a good eye, and has great knowledge of the strike zone.