MLB Batter Efficiency Ratings

[ebemiss]

I've come up with a rating system for batters that I like more than the popular OPS (on base pct plus slugging pct). In my opinion, OPS double dips batting average in both on base pct and slugging pct skewing the players true batting efficiency. What I've done is taken each team and players total plat appearances (PA) and multiplied that by the maximum result...4 for a Home Run. I've then tallied up the players Total Bases (1B,2B,3B,HR), Walks, and Hit by Pitch. After I get those two totals (TB, BB, & HPB) and (PA X 4), I divide the amount the player has accumulated (TB, BB, & HPB) by their total plate appearances times 4 (PA X 4).

This efficiency rating doesn't account for any stolen base stats. It's also not weighted for each park factor as going through each player's log is alot tougher than getting all the players totals from 1 page. It may tweak some of the teams and player rankings slightly but not enough, in my opinion, where the numbers aren't an accurate reading of what's happening on the field.

My idea of the rating is to show which players you'd want up at the plate giving a team the greatest potential to score a run. You can't steal first base, so it didn't make sense to me to have it part of pure batter rating.

Here are 2012 MLB teams and players, with 250 PA or more, through 7/19 games. Here's the link it the format isn't readable.

http://edbemiss.com/2012BER

Max BB+TB+HBP Pct Team

2012 - 14028 - 1806 - 12.87% - NYY
2012 - 14152 - 1718 - 12.14% - TEX
2012 - 13964 - 1687 - 12.08% - COL
2012 - 14408 - 1739 - 12.07% - BOS
2012 - 14004 - 1670 - 11.93% - TOR
2012 - 14376 - 1707 - 11.87% - STL
2012 - 13904 - 1624 - 11.68% - ARI
2012 - 14208 - 1657 - 11.66% - DET
2012 - 13988 - 1630 - 11.65% - LAA
2012 - 14056 - 1632 - 11.61% - MIL
2012 - 14048 - 1624 - 11.56% - CHW
2012 - 14184 - 1628 - 11.48% - CLE
2012 - 13840 - 1582 - 11.43% - CIN
2012 - 13744 - 1568 - 11.41% - WSN
2012 - 13836 - 1578 - 11.41% - ATL
2012 - 13964 - 1581 - 11.32% - LgAvg
2012 - 13972 - 1578 - 11.29% - NYM
2012 - 14140 - 1589 - 11.24% - MIN
2012 - 13912 - 1561 - 11.22% - KCR
2012 - 13884 - 1550 - 11.16% - BAL
2012 - 13324 - 1479 - 11.10% - PIT
2012 - 13912 - 1530 - 11.00% - TBR
2012 - 14220 - 1563 - 10.99% - PHI
2012 - 13796 - 1507 - 10.92% - MIA
2012 - 13792 - 1487 - 10.78% - OAK
2012 - 13336 - 1424 - 10.68% - CHC
2012 - 13984 - 1484 - 10.61% - SFG
2012 - 13892 - 1463 - 10.53% - HOU
2012 - 14112 - 1463 - 10.37% - SEA
2012 - 14064 - 1458 - 10.37% - SDP
2012 - 13808 - 1430 - 10.36% - LAD


Year - Max - BB+TB+HBP - Pct - Player - - League
- - - - - -
2012 - 1480 - 250 - 16.89% - Joey Votto - CIN - NL
2012 - 1484 - 250 - 16.85% - Andrew McCutchen - PIT - NL
2012 - 1516 - 251 - 16.56% - David Ortiz - BOS - AL
2012 - 1492 - 244 - 16.35% - Ryan Braun - MIL - NL
2012 - 1368 - 222 - 16.23% - Mark Trumbo - LAA - AL
2012 - 1448 - 235 - 16.23% - Josh Hamilton - TEX - AL
2012 - 1536 - 246 - 16.02% - David Wright - NYM - NL
2012 - 1512 - 241 - 15.94% - Josh Willingham - MIN - AL
2012 - 1520 - 239 - 15.72% - Edwin Encarnacion - TOR - AL
2012 - 1260 - 196 - 15.56% - Carlos Ruiz - PHI - NL
2012 - 1500 - 233 - 15.53% - Carlos Gonzalez - COL - NL
2012 - 1296 - 200 - 15.43% - Mike Trout - LAA - AL
2012 - 1572 - 242 - 15.39% - Robinson Cano - NYY - AL
2012 - 1016 - 154 - 15.16% - Cody Ross - BOS - AL
2012 - 1284 - 194 - 15.11% - Giancarlo Stanton - MIA - NL
2012 - 1648 - 248 - 15.05% - Miguel Cabrera - DET - AL
2012 - 1576 - 237 - 15.04% - Jose Bautista - TOR - AL
2012 - 1580 - 236 - 14.94% - Adam Dunn - CHW - AL
2012 - 1284 - 189 - 14.72% - Dexter Fowler - COL - NL
2012 - 1364 - 200 - 14.66% - Jason Kubel - ARI - NL
2012 - 1452 - 210 - 14.46% - Carlos Beltran - STL - NL
2012 - 1140 - 164 - 14.39% - Trevor Plouffe - MIN - AL
2012 - 1532 - 220 - 14.36% - Josh Reddick - OAK - AL
2012 - 1628 - 233 - 14.31% - Curtis Granderson - NYY - AL
2012 - 1288 - 184 - 14.29% - Austin Jackson - DET - AL
2012 - 1240 - 177 - 14.27% - Paul Goldschmidt - ARI - NL
2012 - 1572 - 224 - 14.25% - Adam Jones - BAL - AL
2012 - 1408 - 200 - 14.20% - Paul Konerko - CHW - AL
2012 - 1556 - 219 - 14.07% - Matt Holliday - STL - NL
2012 - 1612 - 226 - 14.02% - Prince Fielder - DET - AL
2012 - 1556 - 216 - 13.88% - Melky Cabrera - SFG - NL
2012 - 1492 - 206 - 13.81% - Mark Teixeira - NYY - AL
2012 - 1312 - 180 - 13.72% - Yadier Molina - STL - NL
2012 - 1108 - 152 - 13.72% - Bryan LaHair - CHC - NL
2012 - 1492 - 204 - 13.67% - Aaron Hill - ARI - NL
2012 - 1504 - 205 - 13.63% - Billy Butler - KCR - AL
2012 - 1240 - 169 - 13.63% - A.J. Pierzynski - CHW - AL
2012 - 1004 - 136 - 13.55% - Ryan Ludwick - CIN - NL
2012 - 1456 - 197 - 13.53% - Adrian Beltre - TEX - AL
2012 - 1540 - 208 - 13.51% - Shin-Soo Choo - CLE - AL
2012 - 1412 - 190 - 13.46% - Adam LaRoche - WSN - NL
2012 - 1472 - 198 - 13.45% - Alex Rios - CHW - AL
2012 - 1512 - 203 - 13.43% - Corey Hart - MIL - NL
2012 - 1380 - 185 - 13.41% - David Freese - STL - NL
2012 - 1320 - 177 - 13.41% - Andre Ethier - LAD - NL
2012 - 1524 - 204 - 13.39% - Ben Zobrist - TBR - AL
2012 - 1488 - 199 - 13.37% - Ian Desmond - WSN - NL
2012 - 1380 - 184 - 13.33% - Alfonso Soriano - CHC - NL
2012 - 1348 - 179 - 13.28% - Buster Posey - SFG - NL
2012 - 1244 - 165 - 13.26% - Pedro Alvarez - PIT - NL
2012 - 1380 - 183 - 13.26% - Nick Swisher - NYY - AL
2012 - 1600 - 212 - 13.25% - Albert Pujols - LAA - AL
2012 - 1464 - 193 - 13.18% - Jay Bruce - CIN - NL
2012 - 1412 - 186 - 13.17% - Jason Heyward - ATL - NL
2012 - 1452 - 191 - 13.15% - Joe Mauer - MIN - AL
2012 - 1036 - 136 - 13.13% - David Murphy - TEX - AL
2012 - 1452 - 190 - 13.09% - Aramis Ramirez - MIL - NL
2012 - 1064 - 139 - 13.06% - Jarrod Saltalamacchia - BOS - AL
2012 - 1308 - 170 - 13.00% - Jed Lowrie - HOU - NL
2012 - 1332 - 173 - 12.99% - Freddie Freeman - ATL - NL
2012 - 1140 - 148 - 12.98% - Seth Smith - OAK - AL
2012 - 1616 - 209 - 12.93% - Hunter Pence - PHI - NL
2012 - 1432 - 185 - 12.92% - Mike Moustakas - KCR - AL
2012 - 1036 - 133 - 12.84% - Nick Markakis - BAL - AL
2012 - 1368 - 175 - 12.79% - Michael Cuddyer - COL - NL
2012 - 1520 - 193 - 12.70% - Colby Rasmus - TOR - AL
2012 - 1492 - 188 - 12.60% - Asdrubal Cabrera - CLE - AL
2012 - 1660 - 209 - 12.59% - Alex Gordon - KCR - AL
2012 - 1236 - 155 - 12.54% - Bryce Harper - WSN - NL
2012 - 1032 - 129 - 12.50% - Raul Ibanez - NYY - AL
2012 - 1272 - 159 - 12.50% - Miguel Montero - ARI - NL
2012 - 1512 - 189 - 12.50% - Alex Rodriguez - NYY - AL
2012 - 1596 - 198 - 12.41% - Chase Headley - SDP - NL
2012 - 1152 - 143 - 12.41% - A.J. Ellis - LAD - NL
2012 - 1004 - 124 - 12.35% - Kevin Youkilis - TOT - AL
2012 - 1188 - 146 - 12.29% - Mike Napoli - TEX - AL
2012 - 1240 - 152 - 12.26% - Chris Davis - BAL - AL
2012 - 1684 - 205 - 12.17% - Michael Bourn - ATL - NL
2012 - 1372 - 167 - 12.17% - Matt Wieters - BAL - AL
2012 - 1564 - 190 - 12.15% - Hanley Ramirez - MIA - NL
2012 - 1236 - 150 - 12.14% - Justin Morneau - MIN - AL
2012 - 1688 - 205 - 12.14% - Ian Kinsler - TEX - AL
2012 - 1452 - 176 - 12.12% - Nelson Cruz - TEX - AL
2012 - 1504 - 182 - 12.10% - Dan Uggla - ATL - NL
2012 - 1156 - 139 - 12.02% - Ryan Doumit - MIN - AL
2012 - 1048 - 126 - 12.02% - Mark Reynolds - BAL - AL
2012 - 1216 - 146 - 12.01% - Logan Morrison - MIA - NL
2012 - 1344 - 161 - 11.98% - Ryan Zimmerman - WSN - NL
2012 - 1496 - 179 - 11.97% - Neil Walker - PIT - NL
2012 - 1504 - 180 - 11.97% - Michael Brantley - CLE - AL
2012 - 1572 - 188 - 11.96% - Martin Prado - ATL - NL
2012 - 1196 - 143 - 11.96% - Brian McCann - ATL - NL
2012 - 1248 - 149 - 11.94% - Dayan Viciedo - CHW - AL
2012 - 1148 - 137 - 11.93% - Norichika Aoki - MIL - NL
2012 - 1032 - 123 - 11.92% - Luke Scott - TBR - AL
2012 - 1164 - 138 - 11.86% - Torii Hunter - LAA - AL
2012 - 1376 - 163 - 11.85% - Lucas Duda - NYM - NL
2012 - 1344 - 159 - 11.83% - Michael Saunders - SEA - AL
2012 - 1428 - 169 - 11.83% - Brandon Phillips - CIN - NL
2012 - 1024 - 121 - 11.82% - Todd Helton - COL - NL
2012 - 1564 - 184 - 11.76% - Adrian Gonzalez - BOS - AL
2012 - 1600 - 188 - 11.75% - Jason Kipnis - CLE - AL
2012 - 1452 - 169 - 11.64% - Kyle Seager - SEA - AL
2012 - 1592 - 185 - 11.62% - Carlos Pena - TBR - AL
2012 - 1160 - 134 - 11.55% - Wilson Betemit - BAL - AL
2012 - 1048 - 121 - 11.55% - Gerardo Parra - ARI - NL
2012 - 1040 - 120 - 11.54% - Casey McGehee - PIT - NL
2012 - 1440 - 166 - 11.53% - Justin Upton - ARI - NL
2012 - 1320 - 152 - 11.52% - Jhonny Peralta - DET - AL
2012 - 1288 - 148 - 11.49% - Carlos Lee - TOT - NL
2012 - 1132 - 130 - 11.48% - J.P. Arencibia - TOR - AL
2012 - 1344 - 154 - 11.46% - Omar Infante - MIA - NL
2012 - 1624 - 186 - 11.45% - Jimmy Rollins - PHI - NL
2012 - 1128 - 129 - 11.44% - Will Venable - SDP - NL
2012 - 1168 - 133 - 11.39% - Kendrys Morales - LAA - AL
2012 - 1424 - 162 - 11.38% - Alcides Escobar - KCR - AL
2012 - 1284 - 146 - 11.37% - Ike Davis - NYM - NL
2012 - 2400 - 272 - 11.33% - LgAvg per 600 PA - ERR - ERR
2012 - 1372 - 155 - 11.30% - J.D. Martinez - HOU - NL
2012 - 1676 - 189 - 11.28% - Derek Jeter - NYY - AL
2012 - 1216 - 137 - 11.27% - Gregor Blanco - SFG - NL
2012 - 1296 - 146 - 11.27% - Carlos Santana - CLE - AL
2012 - 1608 - 181 - 11.26% - Alejandro De Aza - CHW - AL
2012 - 1460 - 164 - 11.23% - Kelly Johnson - TOR - AL
2012 - 1320 - 148 - 11.21% - David DeJesus - CHC - NL
2012 - 1428 - 160 - 11.20% - Yonder Alonso - SDP - NL
2012 - 1488 - 166 - 11.16% - Jose Altuve - HOU - NL
2012 - 1040 - 116 - 11.15% - Russell Martin - NYY - AL
2012 - 1368 - 152 - 11.11% - Dustin Pedroia - BOS - AL
2012 - 1496 - 166 - 11.10% - Brett Lawrie - TOR - AL
2012 - 1076 - 119 - 11.06% - Ty Wigginton - PHI - NL
2012 - 1500 - 165 - 11.00% - Rickie Weeks - MIL - NL
2012 - 1472 - 161 - 10.94% - Danny Espinosa - WSN - NL
2012 - 1180 - 129 - 10.93% - Kirk Nieuwenhuis - NYM - NL
2012 - 1620 - 177 - 10.93% - Elvis Andrus - TEX - AL
2012 - 1584 - 173 - 10.92% - Shane Victorino - PHI - NL
2012 - 1516 - 165 - 10.88% - Denard Span - MIN - AL
2012 - 1416 - 154 - 10.88% - Daniel Murphy - NYM - NL
2012 - 1484 - 161 - 10.85% - Angel Pagan - SFG - NL
2012 - 1656 - 179 - 10.81% - Jose Reyes - MIA - NL
2012 - 1556 - 168 - 10.80% - Starlin Castro - CHC - NL
2012 - 1280 - 138 - 10.78% - Jesus Montero - SEA - AL
2012 - 1320 - 141 - 10.68% - Chris Johnson - HOU - NL
2012 - 1492 - 159 - 10.66% - Mike Aviles - BOS - AL
2012 - 1080 - 115 - 10.65% - Alberto Callaspo - LAA - AL
2012 - 1348 - 143 - 10.61% - B.J. Upton - TBR - AL
2012 - 1512 - 160 - 10.58% - Zack Cozart - CIN - NL
2012 - 1372 - 145 - 10.57% - Delmon Young - DET - AL
2012 - 1192 - 125 - 10.49% - Willie Bloomquist - ARI - NL
2012 - 1020 - 107 - 10.49% - Elliot Johnson - TBR - AL
2012 - 1220 - 128 - 10.49% - Drew Stubbs - CIN - NL
2012 - 1224 - 128 - 10.46% - Casey Kotchman - CLE - AL
2012 - 1468 - 153 - 10.42% - Eric Hosmer - KCR - AL
2012 - 1048 - 109 - 10.40% - John Buck - MIA - NL
2012 - 1608 - 167 - 10.39% - Rafael Furcal - STL - NL
2012 - 1328 - 137 - 10.32% - Darwin Barney - CHC - NL
2012 - 1376 - 142 - 10.32% - Brennan Boesch - DET - AL
2012 - 1164 - 120 - 10.31% - Desmond Jennings - TBR - AL
2012 - 1476 - 152 - 10.30% - Jeff Francoeur - KCR - AL
2012 - 1424 - 146 - 10.25% - Gordon Beckham - CHW - AL
2012 - 1536 - 157 - 10.22% - Marco Scutaro - COL - NL
2012 - 1160 - 118 - 10.17% - Brian Bogusevic - HOU - NL
2012 - 1348 - 137 - 10.16% - Howie Kendrick - LAA - AL
2012 - 1100 - 111 - 10.09% - Juan Pierre - PHI - NL
2012 - 1536 - 154 - 10.03% - Dustin Ackley - SEA - AL
2012 - 1628 - 163 - 10.01% - J.J. Hardy - BAL - AL
2012 - 1384 - 137 - 9.90% - Erick Aybar - LAA - AL
2012 - 1076 - 106 - 9.85% - Ryan Roberts - ARI - NL
2012 - 1436 - 140 - 9.75% - Justin Smoak - SEA - AL
2012 - 1120 - 109 - 9.73% - Jose Tabata - PIT - NL
2012 - 1044 - 100 - 9.58% - Ben Revere - MIN - AL
2012 - 1120 - 107 - 9.55% - James Loney - LAD - NL
2012 - 1532 - 146 - 9.53% - Jemile Weeks - OAK - AL
2012 - 1104 - 105 - 9.51% - Sean Rodriguez - TBR - AL
2012 - 1380 - 131 - 9.49% - Cameron Maybin - SDP - NL
2012 - 1504 - 142 - 9.44% - Michael Young - TEX - AL
2012 - 1632 - 154 - 9.44% - Ichiro Suzuki - SEA - AL
2012 - 1176 - 111 - 9.44% - Brandon Crawford - SFG - NL
2012 - 1204 - 113 - 9.39% - Robert Andino - BAL - AL
2012 - 1248 - 116 - 9.29% - Jordan Schafer - HOU - NL
2012 - 1528 - 141 - 9.23% - Yunel Escobar - TOR - AL
2012 - 1036 - 95 - 9.17% - Coco Crisp - OAK - AL
2012 - 1160 - 106 - 9.14% - Brendan Ryan - SEA - AL
2012 - 1216 - 110 - 9.05% - Placido Polanco - PHI - NL
2012 - 1332 - 119 - 8.93% - Jamey Carroll - MIN - AL
2012 - 1460 - 130 - 8.90% - Alexei Ramirez - CHW - AL
2012 - 1012 - 90 - 8.89% - Brian Dozier - MIN - AL
2012 - 1028 - 87 - 8.46% - Tony Gwynn - LAD - NL
2012 - 1256 - 104 - 8.28% - Cliff Pennington - OAK - AL
2012 - 1308 - 107 - 8.18% - Dee Gordon - LAD - NL
2012 - 1120 - 86 - 7.68% - Clint Barmes - PIT - NL
2012 - 1016 - 75 - 7.38% - Kurt Suzuki - OAK - AL

[dominik]

that's a great effort.

But do you know wOBA? It does basically the same and too avoids the mathematical shortcomings of OPS (adding different denominators, over valuing slugging, not weighing the bases correctly...).

but I like your system. any system that counts total bases and uses PAs as a denominator can't do really wrong.

however I would suggest you to use the realistic linear weights for run correlation (just google wOBA and linear weights). using 1 (single, walk and HP),2 (2B), 3 (3B) 4 (HR) is not really (OPS as crude and primitive as it is mathematically does give you decent correlations with runs ) bad but you might get a more accurate results with actual linear weights.

[JDanger]

I admire your tenacity, but using the 1-2-3-4 weighting system for Total Bases is sorta obsolete in the era of Linear Weights.

[ebemiss]

Thanks guys for the feedback. I understand what you are talking about and found an example of the weights.

R/G = (.49S + .61D + 1.14T + 1.50HR + .33W + .14SB + .73SF)/G

I'll add those factors in and have two sets of numbers.

1. My pct of total base "potential", meaning the pct out of the max of 4 for each plate appearance (the numbers I've posted above)
2. The suggestion of the linear weights.

Next time I update the numbers I'll list the weighted numbers next to my set.