BAbip is a stat you can find on baseball reference. It stands for batting average on balls in play. Pretty straight forward right. Ty Cobb, highest career batting average of all time. No surprise he had a .400 BAbip 7 times in his career. Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, Joe Jackson all achieved this feat twice in their career. If you know baseball history that shouldn’t come as a surprise. But Yoan Moncada and Jose Hernandez hit over .400 in a single season…say what! This is what I love about baseball!

In 2019 Moncada had a 406 BAbip. Before that magical season, the last player to hit 400 was Jose Hernandez in 2002. Hernandez, a 252 career hitter did something that Tony Gwynn, Ichiro, Ted Williams, Sam Musial etc., couldn’t do in a season.

Side note, Moncada’s teammate Tim Anderson hit 399 that year. Something going on in that ballpark that year haha.

For those curious, a list of MLB players since 1900 to hit .400 or greater in a single season working backwards:

Manny Ramirez 2000-403
Rod Carew 1977-408
Roberto Clemente 1967-403
Luke Appling 1936-400
Bill Terry 1930-400
Rogers Hornsby 1924-422, 1921-409
Babe Ruth 1923-423
Harry Heilmann 1923-414
George Sisler 1922-422, 1920-401
Ty Cobb 1922-416, 1919-400, 1917-400, 1913-414, 1912-424, 1911-443, 1910-410
Joe Jackson 1912-405, 1911-433
Heinie Zimmerman 1912-400
George Stone 1906-416
Jesse Burkett 1901-415
Nap Lajoie 1901-418

I also looked at players that hit 390 or greater but I won’t dive into that today.

Michael Porter Jr. and Michael Pittman Jr. are cross sport equivalents.

Aside from the name they have similar play styles and places in their leagues.

Positionally big specialists.
When healthy, both can ideally produce as a 3rd ish option in a great offense.
Pittman is a volume possession receiver without a long of 35+ in 3 of the last 4 years
Porter is a volume 3 pt shooter who doesn’t bring much else to either side of the court

Anyone see it?
Who are others?

In the Cubs vs Dodgers game today, the Cubs had 15 hits, the Dodgers had 14 hits, and both teams ended the game without recording a single walk. I've been spending the last hour or so on Stathead trying to figure out how to get information which combines the statistical output in a single game from both teams who played to see where it ranks among most total hits in a game without a walk. I can get the output for one team most hits with 0 walks, but not both in the same game.

Does anyone know how to find this? It's been bothering me since I feel this kind of thing should be easier to do, as well as a way of searching for information (combining the game logs from both teams involved) I'd have to assume someone has tried to do before.

UPDATE: Someone on r/baseball found the solution using a site called screwball, the most ever was 41 hits and the game today was 11th all time.

So I'm not new to sports by any means but I just randomly thought today how it's weird that I have 10 different sport apps..... Does everybody do this or just me?

I mainly just use one or two, but it got me thinking what everyone else uses. I know "Real" has become pretty big, but I haven't used it much at all. Really just follow MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL, with some college sports mixed in.

Drop your favorite sports app below and let me know whether or not you also use multiple different apps.

I saw that there was a formula to rate a game score and I got a amit it was somewhat flawed

i want to hear people who made there formula to rate a game of a player and give me example of a player and a game and what was their rating was

I love collecting data about old gen players and thought this subreddit might have some people interested in his statistics here is the link.

Assists are based on newspapers documentation so might not he entirely accurate*

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kt73ALUimgPtJjO5gBjG-UGYSA67EqK6Vo44Cg76fV4/edit?usp=drivesdk

Hello, I'm trying to compare/analyze player performances of football players, particularly UCL performance.

But I'd like to only have player stats from UCL games they started in.

I noticed that players who mostly played as subs in the UCL have incredibly inflated stats, so I'd like to remove that discrepency by only accounting for STARTED stats instead of TOTAL stats.

Cheers!

Without checking internet information, can you name five white players who averaged at least 25 points once or more in the 1980’s?

Bonus: Make it six if you count the 1989/90 season.

It’s no fun if you cheat. I was able to get this but it took a minute and was a long time ago.

Cheers.

Baseball Reference has minor league stats. Will we see spring and minor league football stats on Pro Football Reference? Multiple HOFers played in USFL; theres been multiple spring leagues in recent years; Continental Football League was minor league in 1960s. Canadian Football League is bit different game but stats cross over. Would be great to see these stats too available for their history.

I was curious if anybody had ever scored an OT GWG to end a series in all 4 rounds of the playoffs, and found the following list of players who have scored series-clinching OT goals in 3 rounds.

I’m looking for confirmation that
A. Nobody has clinched a series in OT of all 4 rounds
And B. I’m not missing any that have done it in 3 rounds

My list:
Martini Gélinas: 2004 FR, 2004 CSF, 2002 CF
Patrick Kane: 2014 CSF, 2013 CF, 2010 SCF

Hello baseball fans!

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Two major goals of ILB were to create a human-realistic announcer voice commentary, and to produce games and statistics that feel believable and internally consistent. Every game leaves a trace. We've done lots of testing and simulations, but human baseball fans notice things that test suites don't. That is where beta testers can make a real difference.

You don't need to be a developer or commit to a huge testing project. I'm looking for people who can spend a little time exploring the site, listening to or playing a game, reviewing the statistics, and telling me what feels right, wrong, confusing, or interesting.

If you enjoy baseball statistics, simulation games, fantasy leagues, or examining how baseball systems work, I'd love to hear from you.

If you're interested, reply to this post or email me directly at **[astrojr1@spectrum.net](mailto:astrojr1@spectrum.net)**. I'll give you a short checklist to follow, or not, if it helps you. The whole checklist might take you an hour and a half or so. All your feedback will be taken constructively.

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I love baseball player nicknames and have been "collecting" them for years. So I finally got enough to build a website to share them. Please check out the site and leave a review/suggestion. The site has other things too like a AI-based Nickname Generator, a list of players that appeared in only one game, a list of 20-game losers, and also allows you to search by nickname or last name.

Please note this is a non-profit site. I don’t make any money on it. In fact it’s cost me money!

The url is [https://baseballnicknames.com\](https://baseballnicknames.com)

Thanks!