225:, he realized that hits divided by at bats would provide a better measure of individual batting ability. This is because while in cricket, scoring runs is almost entirely dependent on one's own batting skill, in baseball it is largely dependent on having other good hitters on one's team. Chadwick noted that hits are independent of teammates' skills, so used this as the basis for the baseball batting average. His reason for using at bats rather than outs is less obvious, but it leads to the intuitive idea of the batting average being a percentage reflecting how often a batter gets on base, whereas in contrary, hits divided by outs is not as simple to interpret in real terms.
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62:. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter.
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322:"Career Leaders for Batting Average"
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149:{\displaystyle AVG={\frac {H}{AB}}}
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267:Baseball portal
172:In modern times, a
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994:Hit wicket
881:Win Shares
796:Game score
670:Wild pitch
472:Grand slam
273:References
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243:downloads
75:Australia
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306:20 March
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215:cricket
206:History
190:Ty Cobb
184:of the
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