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A review of the formulas prior to attendance at any game can refresh your memory giving you back the ability to adjust the statistics of any player after his last pitch, last hit or stolen base.</p> <p>Statistics: Numerical facts and data, the lifeblood of baseball. As the most statistical of sports, baseball is awash in both amateur and professional statisticians. All teams and both leagues maintain their own statistical records.</p> <p>Source: The New Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson (1999).</p> </div> <div class="topquote"> <img src="/images/typewriter-with-paper.png" alt="Baseball Almanac Top Quote" /> <p>"It (baseball) is a haunted game in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before."- Ken Burns in Baseball (1989)</p> </div> <div class="ba-table"> <table class="boxed"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="header"> <h2>Baseball Stats 101</h2> <p>A Baseball Stats 101 Workshop</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="banner">Online Help & Fun</td> <td class="banner">Definitions & Formulas</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="datacolBox"><a href="stats4.shtml">Abbreviations 101</a></td> <td class="datacolBox"><a href="stats3.shtml">Defensive Stats</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="datacolBox"><a href="stats6.shtml">Baseball Stats Calculator</a></td> <td class="datacolBox"><a href="stats.shtml">Offensive Stats</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="datacolBox"><a href="quotes/stats5.shtml">Quotes About Stats</a></td> <td class="datacolBox"><a href="stats2.shtml">Pitching Stats</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="header"> <h2>Baseball Digital Scorebook ©</h2> <p>by Baseball Almanac / Programming by Les Stewart</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="banner">The Ultimate Scoring System</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"> <a href="scoreit/baseball_scorebook.shtml">Baseball Digital Scorebook Page</a> (With Screenshots!)<br />A full featured / comprehensive stats 101 scoring solution featuring: <ul> <li>Printable ScoreCard</li> <li>Home Stats / Away Stats</li> <li>Team Schedule with Results, Cumulative Records & Scores</li> <li>Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Base Running & Catching Stats</li> <li>Pitch Counts, Abbreviations & Detailed Instructions</li> <li>Not free, but inexpensive and worth every penny! </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="header"> <h2>Microsoft Excel Baseball Spreadsheets</h2> <p>Free Baseball Stats Resources</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="banner">Stats 101 Spreadsheets</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/stattool.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><sup> (8 kb)</sup><br /> Hitting & Pitching Sheets</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/Individual_Player_Stats.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><sup> (15.6 kb)</sup><br />Little League Individual Player Stats (Simple)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/statscpo.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><sup> (192 kb)</sup><br /> Little League Team Stats (Simple)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/Stats_CPO_Plus.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><sup> (1,647 kb</sup><sup>)</sup><br />Team Stats (Plus) With UPICK Option (Stats vs a Specific Pitcher)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/Hitting%20Odds.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><sup> (7 kb)</sup><br /> Odds of Hitting A Pitch (Baseball or Softball)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/Team_Stats.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><sup> (56 kb)</sup><br /> Team Stats Tool</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="datacolBox"><a href="downloads/MLB_Stats.zip">Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet</a><span style="text-decoration:none;"><sup> (707 kb</sup></span><span style="text-decoration:none;"><sup>)</sup></span><br /> Baseball Team Stats (w/Giants as an example)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="header">Baseball Stats 101 | <a href="feedmenu.shtml">Share Your Stats Tool</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <img src="/images/ball-red.png" alt="baseball almanac flat baseball" class="flat-baseball-img" /> <div class="fast-facts"> <h3><img src="/images/fast-facts-logo.png" alt="baseball almanac fast facts" /></h3> <p>Did you know that the <a href="stats.shtml">batting average</a> statistic first appeared in print during the 1874 season (two years before the National League started)? Too easy? Did you know that during the early 1950s, Allen Roth (a statistician for the Brooklyn Dodgers) and <a href="players/player.php?p=rickebr01" title="Branch Rickey">Branch Rickey</a> devised the formula for <a href="stats.shtml">on-base percentage</a>?</p> <p>There have been many interesting quotes about baseball statistics throughout baseball history and we are pleased to present a few of our favorites:</p> <div class="blockquote"> <p>"Baseball isn't statistics. Baseball is (<a href="players/player.php?p=dimagjo01" title="Joe DiMaggio">Joe</a>) <a href="players/player.php?p=dimagjo01" title="Joe DiMaggio">DiMaggio</a> rounding second." - Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon</p> <p>"A passion for statistics is the earmark of a literate people." - Sportswriter Paul Fisher in the New York Post </p> <p>"(<a href="players/player.php?p=lajoina01" title="Nap Lajoie">Nap</a>) <a href="players/player.php?p=lajoina01" title="Nap Lajoie">Lajoie</a> was perhaps the first player to attract nation-wide attention because of his batting average. Prior to his time the fans were only mildly interested in statistics." - Sportswriter Bob French in the Toledo Blade</p> <p>"Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches." - <a href="players/player.php?p=boutoji01" title="Jim Bouton">Jim Bouton</a></p> <p>"Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball." - Leonard Koppett in A Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball (1967)</p> <p>"They both (bikinis & statistics) show a lot, but not everything." - <a href="players/player.php?p=harrato01" title="Toby Harrah">Toby Harrah</a></p> <p>"Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow." - <a href="players/player.php?p=vanslan01" title="Andy Van Slyke">Andy Van Slyke</a></p> </div> <p>Every year a company named <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=baseballalmanac&keyword=stats+inc+baseball&mode=books" target="_blank">Stats, Inc.</a> releases a super series of books dedicated to baseball statistics. 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