Batting Average

From SABR Encyclopedia

Batting Average was among one of the first baseball statistics created. It is the quotient of hits over at bats.

It has been used as one of the pre-eminent batting statistics, as it is easily computed and has been in use for well over a century. It merely is the empirical probability of a player getting a hit in a given at bat. Batting Average is an official statistic. Currently, players qualify for the league batting average championship based on rule 10.22(a) of the 2009 Official Rules http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2008/official_rules/10_the_official_scorer.pdf, retrieved on 2009-10-21.. Batting averages are traditionally expressed rounded to three decimal places.

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