Barry Bonds holds the MLB single-season slugging percentage record (. Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 is a Major League Baseball Outfielder who is currently a Free agent. 863).

In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is a popular measure of the power of a hitter. Statistics play an important role in summarizing Baseball performance and evaluating players in the Sport. In Baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing Pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats:

where AB is the number of at-bats for a given player, and 1B, 2B, 3B, and HR are the number of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs, respectively. In Baseball statistics, total bases refers to the number of bases a player has gained with hits, i In Baseball, an at bat ( AB) or time at bat is used to calculate certain statistics, including Batting average, On base In Baseball, a single is the most common type of base hit, accomplished through the act of a batter safely reaching First base by hitting In Baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching Second base without being called out by the Umpire In Baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching Third base after hitting the ball with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see Walks are specifically excluded from this calculation.

For example, in 1920, Babe Ruth played his first season for the New York Yankees. George Herman Ruth Jr (February 6 1895 &ndash August 16 1948 also popularly known as " Babe " " The Bambino " and " The Sultan of The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. In 458 at bats, Ruth had 172 hits, comprising 73 singles, 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs, which brings the total base count to 73 + (36 × 2) + (9 × 3) + (54 × 4) = 388. His total number of bases (388) divided by his total at-bats (458) is . 847, his slugging percentage for the season. The next year he slugged . 846, and these records went unbroken until 2001, when Barry Bonds achieved 411 bases in 476 at-bats, bringing his slugging percentage to . Champions Major League Baseball Regular Season Champions Other champions Caribbean World Series: Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 is a Major League Baseball Outfielder who is currently a Free agent. 863, unmatched since.

Although the term "slugging percentage" is used officially by Major League Baseball, SABR, and many sports media outlets, this is actually incorrect as the formula provides an average, not a percentage. The Society for American Baseball Research was established in Cooperstown New York, in August 1971 In Mathematics, an average, or central tendency of a Data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or " expected " value of In Mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a Fraction of 100 ( per cent meaning "per hundred"

Significance

Long after it was first invented, slugging percentage gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage (OBP) to form a very good measure of a player's overall offensive production (in fact, OBP + SLG was originally referred to as "production" by baseball writer and statistician Bill James). In Baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP (sometimes referred to as on-base average ', as the statistic is rarely presented as a true Percentage) George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton Kansas) is a Baseball writer historian and statistician whose work has been A predecessor metric was developed by Branch Rickey in 1954. Wesley Branch Rickey ( December 15 1881 &ndash December 9 1965) was an innovative Major League Baseball executive best known Rickey, in Life Magazine, suggested that combining OBP with what he called "extra base power" (EBP) would give a better indicator of player performance than typical Triple Crown stats. For other uses of this term see Triple crown In Baseball, the Triple Crown refers to A batter who (at season's end leads EBP was a predecessor to slugging percentage. ^[1]

Allen Barra and George Ignatin were early adopters in combining the two modern-day statistics, multiplying them together to form what is now known as "SLOB" (Slugging × On-Base) ^[2]. Bill James applied this principle to his runs created formula several years later (and perhaps independently), essentially multiplying SLOB × At-Bats to create the formula:

In 1984, Pete Palmer and John Thorn developed perhaps the most widespread means of combining slugging and on-base percentage: OPS. George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton Kansas) is a Baseball writer historian and statistician whose work has been Runs created (RC is a baseball statistic invented by Bill James to estimate the number of runs a hitter contributes to his team Pete Palmer is an American Statistician, and a major contributor to the applied mathematical field referred to as Sabermetrics. John Thorn (born April 17, 1947) is a noted Sports Historian. On-base plus slugging (OPS is a baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player's On-base percentage and Slugging percentage. "OPS" simply stands for "on-base plus slugging", and is a simple addition of the two values. Because it is easy to calculate, OPS has been used with increased frequency in recent years as a shorthand form to evaluate contributions as a batter. In Baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing Pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team

Perfect slugging percentage

The maximum numerically possible slugging percentage is 4. 000, which has been achieved momentarily by several players who hit a home run on their first at-bat of the season. Kevin Kouzmanoff, then playing for the Cleveland Indians, hit a grand slam off of Edinson Volquez on his first major-league pitch on September 2, 2006. Kevin Kouzmanoff (born July 25, 1981 in Newport Beach California) known as " Kooooz "" The Crushin' Russian " (despite The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Edinson Volquez (born July 3, 1983 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Starting pitcher in Major League Baseball Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. He thus briefly achieved the best possible offensive percentage in every category, including some esoteric categories such as "runs per pitch" (4. 000).

See also

• List of MLB players with a .500 slugging percentage

Footnotes

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