Batting Average Is Dead; Long Live Batting Average

The advanced metric revolution relegated BA to secondary status but it remains the first number fans check and the number that produces emotional responses at round thresholds

Batting Average Is Dead; Long Live Batting Average

The baseball analytics community declared batting average a secondary statistic approximately twenty years ago. The declaration was correct: batting average fails to account for walks, does not weight extra-base hits, and correlates less strongly with run production than OPS, wRC+, and successor statistics developed to replace it. The batting average is a less complete measure of offensive performance than the alternatives. See London Museums: Free Entry, Heavy Expectations at The London Prat.

The Detail

The batting average is also still the first number that baseball fans check when looking at a hitter, still the number on scoreboards in stadiums where the analytics are being applied, and still the number that produces the observable emotional response when it passes .300 that no advanced metric produces at any threshold. Both things are true simultaneously. The analytics are correct about what batting average measures. The fans are correct about what batting average means culturally. Cricket Bat Diplomacy provides context.

The Analysis

The cultural persistence of batting average in the face of analytical evidence for alternatives is the specific case study in how statistics retain meaning through cultural habituation that the analytics revolution cannot fully address. The fans who check OPS are a growing and statistically literate segment. The fans who check batting average are the majority, and the majority is not wrong about what the statistic means culturally even when the analysts are correct about what it measures. The On Deck News covers baseball data because both things matter. See PFC Victoria London: Football With European Ambiti for more. You May Be Visiting the UK covers broader context.

The The On Deck News Approach

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