http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2004/12/on-the-productive-out-percentage/ Economic Thinking about Baseball Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2004/12/on-the-productive-out-percentage/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://bradbury.sewanee.edu/wordpress/index.php/2004/12/18/on-the-productive-out-percentage/#comment-11 What about a productive AB? Each AB would be quantified by the total number of bases advanced (runners on base and the batter). So a baseloaded walk would be 4, and a solo home run would also be 4. Then divide that by the number of outs. Of course, if you want to get even fancier, you can weigh each base advanced by the probability of run scored of that base. I realize this may be getting too close to descriptive to be useful, and maybe a combination of more simpler stats would do the trick. But it's just an idea. What about a productive AB? Each AB would be quantified by the total number of bases advanced (runners on base and the batter). So a baseloaded walk would be 4, and a solo home run would also be 4. Then divide that by the number of outs. Of course, if you want to get even fancier, you can weigh each base advanced by the probability of run scored of that base. I realize this may be getting too close to descriptive to be useful, and maybe a combination of more simpler stats would do the trick. But it’s just an idea.

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