My stepdad is a big baseball fan. We’re watching the World Series, and he keeps mentioning the player’s batting average. I have never played, watched, or learned about baseball in my life, so Google and my stepdad was tricky (they used more baseball terms to explain that I don’t know). I want to be able to keep up with what he’s saying, so could someone please explain it to me? Thank you 🙂 (Also, explanations on what a player would have to do to get the particular ranges [???] for said average would be appreciated as well!!)
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Batting average is just a ratting from 0 to 1.000 (or 1 to one thousand) On how likely a player is to hit a ball at each at bat (each time they get to go up to the plate).
It’s calculated effectively like this. Number of hits divided by number of at bats.
If someone is batting .500, it means they’re hitting half the balls thrown at them, most players typically are in the .2-.35 range, when you start getting into the .400 range your really good, the higher the better.
This is also where the phrase comes “batting a thousand” comes from, it means you have a batting average of 1.000, or in other words your doing perfect.
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