Year-by-Year Per-Game Batting Stats
Posted by Sean Forman on May 6, 2009
Year-by-Year Per-Game Batting Stats
We've got lots of things on the site so they can often get buried in the pure volume of things to look at. What I linked to here is the per-game statistical totals for the entire major leagues. As you can see the home runs and scoring has tailed off a bit from the earlier torrid pace. Walks are way up. We are still well off the levels seen in 1999 and 2000.
We have similar outputs for the AL and the NL.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Some of the numbers in that table appear to be screwed up. 18 runs per game in 1890? And look how the PA per game suddenly jump up, seemingly in correlation with expansions.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am
And 7.4 RPG in 1894 -- that's the total per team, not for both teams like the most of the table seems to show. I think there's a bunch of screw calculations in there.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Offense usually picks up in the summer, no? You might (or might not) reach some different conclusions if you compare 2009 so far to other years through early May.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
The PA (and anything else not a slash stat) jump up by about 50% in 1914 and 1915, which just happens to be the years for the Federal League. I suspect the stats for FL players are being included in the numerator but the FL games played are not being included in the denominator.
May 10th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Also, sometimes when there is no data for a stat (such as GIDP) it is left blank, but sometimes the value is 0.00. Those should probably all be blanks.