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From: dpb@philabs.UUCP (Paul Benjamin)
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Subject: playoff slugging + onbase avg.
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 17:40:03 EDT
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This is just a short (thank God!) note on team slugging and
on-base averages. The Cards did beat LA in those stats, as well
as on the field, but the opposite is true for KC vs. Tor, and
so far in the World Series.

         BA      SA     OBA     SA+OBA

KC     .225     .366   .294     .660
Tor    .269     .372   .319     .681

After two games of the Series, we have:

KC     .270     .393   .343     .736
StL    .203     .313   .282     .595

These are based on data in the NY Times of 10/22. By the way, KC has
outstolen StL 2 to 1 ! But there is another speed-related stat that
is VERY important - StL has turned 4 DPs, KC has turned none. That
sure does cancel that edge in OBA. It actually cancels the edge in
BA, which is reflected twice - in both OBA and SA, thus cancelling
the entire difference in SA+OBA ! (The two teams really have the same
number of extra bases (7) so that the difference in SA+OBA is just
about twice the difference in BA.)

Also note that KC is doing much better in the Series than in the ALCS,
according to this stat. In reality, they are scoring 1.5 runs per game,
as compared with 3.71 runs per game in the ALCS.

Doesn't look like team OBA+SA is so important, does it?

                                 Paul Benjamin