Is a BA % akin to a batting average (BA) in baseball? Is 3/10 an acceptable BA %? What is a respectable BA %? Should MA get MA cards?
Your BA% doesn't mean that much because it depends a lot on what type of questions you answer. (Even if we ignore the Condundrumland bug that gives some people more than 100% BA! ) You can get a high BA% in any of these ways... - Answer mainly questions in your area of expertise - Answer mainly old unanswered questions that have no competition - Write great answers to questions that get a number of good answers All these things tend to give you a lower BA%... - You answer opinion and discussion questions - You answer fun and poll type questions - You answer a lot of question from askers that usually don't choose a BA - You answer questions in the same fields as some of the big hitters on Mahalo So in the end there isn't a direct and close connection between how good your answers are and your BA%.
But personally I like to see my BA% around 40%, and a lot of the upper belts who answer a pretty broad range of questions are in that kind of ballpark.
One problem you'll run into is the skewing effect of ConundrumLand. Answers given for CL questions are not counted in the number of answers given, while BA's from CL do count as part of BA overall. Thus, if I answer 100 CL questions, and have 10% of those as BA (a rather low real BA of 10%), but only answered 1 MA question without getting BA, Mahalo's BA % will show 1000% (10 CL BA divided by 1 MA answer given).
Next, if we ignore the CL issue, there are quite a few Mahaloians who get BA% in excess of 50%, which would be the equivalent of batting .500 - not a typically achievable baseball BA. Perhaps if you divide the Mahalo BA by 2, or at least by 1.5 you can get some quasi-plausible comparison. Finally, the problem with ERA is that it is a stat of something you're trying to keep URL1 Mahalo stats there are not any kept that are better kept low.
I can't think of a way to relate it to questions asked either. The closest I can think of is the ratio of answers given to tips received. If you provide 500 answers and only receive 20% BA, and those are only the default M$0.25, you will have received M$25, so your ratio would be 500/25 = 20 - which is rather poor.
If instead you provide 1000 answers, get 50% BA, and get an average of M$1 for each BA, you'd have M$500 in tips, and your ratio would be 1 - which is pretty great. Have fun.
There's no doubt the approach helped Cobb, but unlike most hitters, he could hit Johnson's fastball. Some say Grove was the best pitcher of all time -- 300 wins with a .680 winning percentage, nine ERA titles, seven consecutive strikeout titles. Wouldn't you love to see Ruth taking a big cut against Grove's legendary fastball?
I couldn't find Ruth career's numbers against Grove, but he did hit nine home runs off him, tied with Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg for the most against Grove. In the data Retrosheet has available, Ruth hit .300/.349/.438 with three home runs in 80 at-bats, six walks and 27 K's. Those numbers are from Retrosheet, but are incomplete.
From 1948 to 1956, Williams crushed Feller -- .389/.511/.833, with eight home runs in 72 at-bats. So, at least initially, Feller fared better before Williams started dominating. Williams did call Feller the best pitcher he ever faced.
With his fastball/slider combo, you might expect that Gibson was tough on right-handed batters and you'd be correct: right-handers hit .204 against him, left-handers .257. Basically, he owned Mays, who struck out 30 times in 108 plate appearances and had just four extra-base hits. In James Hirsch's biography of Mays he tells the story of Gibson once visiting Mays' home wearing glasses.
Gibson didn't wear them when he pitched. "You wear glasses? Man, you're going to kill somebody one of those days," Mays said.
Hirsch writes that later in his career Mays started conveniently scheduling off days against hard-throwers like Gibson and Tom Seaver, and that he always preferred off-speed pitches to fastballs. Aaron had a little more success than Mays. So who did hit well against Gibson?
Billy Williams hit .259 but with 10 home runs in 174 at-bats and 24 walks against 14 strikeouts. Richie Hebner had a 1.127 OPS against Gibson in 74 PAs, batting .387. Darrell Evans, facing mostly the late-career Gibson, never struck out against him in 35 PAs, drawing 11 walks and and hitting three home runs.
Of course, Mays faced the young Koufax, and then the unhittable Koufax. During Koufax's 1962-1966 run, when he led the National League each season in ERA, Mays still hit a respectable .242/.373/.484, with more walks than strikeouts. Of 73 players with at least 40 career plate appearances against Koufax, only five hit .300.
Most of that damage was against pre-'62 Koufax, as Aaron hit .259 from '62 to '66. Ryan came over to the Astros in 1980, the year Schmidt won the first of his three MVP trophies. In the ultimate battle of power hitter versus power pitcher, the results were perhaps what you would expect: Schmidt hit for a low average, but got on base and popped home runs at a pretty good ratio.
The two came up in 1986, so it's not surprising that Maddux faced Bonds more than any hitter in his career. How good was Bonds? Even the pitcher with pinpoint control walked him 24 times in 157 PAs with just 16 strikeouts.
Bonds' nine home runs off Maddux are the most he hit off one pitcher, tied with John Smoltz. Bonds had an .883 OPS against Maddux, but 1.138 against Smoltz and .992 against Tom Glavine. Who did own Bonds?
He went 3-for-33 off Chuck McElroy, with just one walk (although two home runs). Johnson had 37 intentional walks in his career; 34 were to right-handed batters. Two were to Barry Bonds.
The first walk to Bonds came in 2003, runner on second, no outs, sixth inning, Diamondbacks down 2-0. The second one came in 2004 and is more interesting: 2004, game tied in the fifth, runners on first and second. Edgardo Alfonzo hit a fly ball to deep left-center that Luis Gonzalez dropped; Steve Finley was then credited with an error on the throw in as all three runners scored.
The walk to Hermida came in 2008, in a game Hermida was batting eighth. Maybe that's when Johnson knew he was nearing the end. What are some of your favorite matchups?
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