U.S. Needs to Retire the Penny; Baseball Needs to Retire Batting Average

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BDD: Baseball Needs to Retire Batting Average
Published 4/16/2008 by Bill Baer at crashburnalley.com
... I published a rant against batting average at Baseball Digest Daily today. Check it out if you’re interested. Don’t forget to check out ...

BBD: Baer: Baseball Needs to Retire Batting Average
Published 4/16/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
BBD: Baer: Baseball Needs to Retire Batting Average Anything, anything...to help me forget the teen psycho-trauma of Yaz’s .301! If you look at the formula for batting average and on-base percentage, you’ll find that BA (hits divided by at-bats) is in OBP ([hits plus walks plus hit-by-pitches] divided by [at-bats plus walks plus hit by pitches plus sacrifice flies])! As a result of these facts, I am officially and formally requesting Major League Baseball to, at once, halt the use of batting average on their websites, on television and radio broadcasts, on the backs of ...

The USA Needs to Retire the Penny and Baseball Needs to Retire BA
Published 4/16/2008 by landis at OpenSourceBaseball.com
... cards, in video games, in fantasy baseball leagues, among the numerous other venues in which batting average is used. There is nothing to be gained from it; it is one of many vestigial statistics that haven’t yet been phased out by the evolution of statistics, much like your appendix. Let’s speed up that evolution by phasing out batting average from the baseball lexicon. The entire article can be found here.

TGIF Reading: Why ask why?
Published 4/18/2008 by Sarah Green at umpbump.com
... calling first-pitch throwing Victoria Beckham a D-Lister? ( Posh rocks! Posh is fierce! Posh is going to kill you! ) Why is Baseball Digest Daily arguing to get rid of batting average? ( If you don’t like it, you don’t have to look at it! ) And why does ...