Baseball Reference question
Hi guys, quick question about the website baseeball reference. When viewing the team stats there is a stat for hitters labeled ops +, with a stat for pitchers that is era +. From prior knowledge i know that a 100 in either category is considered average, but the part i am confused about is just how much above average it is. For example, if a player has a ops + of 103 does that mean he is 3% above average? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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interesting
by wildthang on Jun 1, 2007 3:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Perfect Season
Example
League Average OPS - 750
Player A OPS - 2000
This is an OPS+ greater than 200.
In fact a perfect OPS is 5000, so an OPS+ of much higher than 200 is possible. (if extremely unlikely)
An ERA of 0.00 in the context of a typical league average ERA would yield an ERA+ that was much greater than 200.
by GregJP on Jun 1, 2007 7:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Quick side note
by jc3 on Jun 1, 2007 10:49 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Clarification
An ERA of 0.00 results means that ERA+ is undefined ("infinite" if you will as an ERA of 0.01 would result in an ERA+ of a few thousand) and a 0 ERA+ is only possible if the pitcher has given up earned runs without retiring a batter.
OPS+ is not scaled OPS, but its OBP+ plus SLG+ minus 100. So, in full, its:
100*(OBP/lgOBP + SLG/lgSLG - 1) where lgOBP and lgSLG are park normalized. Because of this interesting definition, a batter with OBP and SLG of .000 has a negative OPS+! (-100)
Interesting factoids:
-- Because ERA+ has ERA in the denominator, you cannot do simple weighted-by-IP averages to find career ERA+ from seasonal ERA+ values. A harmonic mean is necessary. For example, the average ERA+ of two 200 IP seasons of ERA+ 100 and 200 is not 150, but is 133.
-- OPS+ is indeed an odd formula, but it works. It more closely approximates the runs created formula of OBP*SLG because it removes the difference in scale between OBP (~.330) and SLG (~.430).
by DavidFoss on Jun 1, 2007 10:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
wow....
thanks for writing that up. seriously. good stuff....
by bleedjaxblue on Jun 2, 2007 4:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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