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ShareThisWho am I? #6
More correctly....who are we?
All regarding career totals:
Player #1: I have the fewest RBI per HR among players with at least 300 HR.
Player #2: I have the most RBI per HR among players with at least 300 HR.
Player #3: I have the fewest runs scored per HR among players with at least 300 HR.
Player #4: I have the most runs scored per HR among players with at least 300 HR.
(Hint: these are all fairly easy to figure out using the arithmetic function on the Batting Season Finder)
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December 11th, 2009 at 10:06 am
#1 Big Mac?
#2 Dimaggio?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:09 am
#1 Big Mac is second all time.
#2...nope.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:27 am
#1: Adam Dunn?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Duh...scratch that. Move that to #3.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Ok...I can't do anything right today.
#3: Cecil Fielder?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Actually Dunn is correct for #1. Fielder is not correct.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:34 am
2. Al Simmons
3. Mark McGwire
4. Rogers Hornsby
December 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Where do I go to find out how to use the arithmetic function?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
I wrote a post about it right here:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/3315
Basically, it is a new criterion that has been added to the season finders and game finders and allows searches for one stat being more or less than another stat multiplied by a number.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:48 am
#3 is Dave Kingman
December 11th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Maybe I'm going batty, but I get McGwire for #1 as well -- 2.425 RBI per HR compared to Dunn's 2.459.
I agree with Cgehringer on the others.
December 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
How are people getting this "per" stuff?
December 11th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Sorry---Whiz (and others) are right that McGwire is the answer for #1.
1. Mark McGwire 2.425 RBI/HR
2. Al Simmons 5.951 RBI/HR
3. Mark McGwire 2.002 R/HR
4. Rogers Hornsby 5.246 R/HR
Stats #2 and #4 really favor guys who didn't hit a lot of homers. There have been many players, especially in earlier eras, who were great run-producers without hitting lots of homers. It's no coincidence that Simmons and Hornsby both just barely make the 300-HR club, and I have no doubt that there are guys with higher RBI/HR and R/HR ratios who had lower career HR totals.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
#12 Dave - currently it can only be calculated manually. But you can use the PI to narrow the search. For example, you can do a season finder for players with at least 300 HR and R < 2.2 * HR. That search yields, I believe, only McGwire and Kingman. I had to then manually calculate the numbers for each guy to see who had the lower value. In the future, hopefully the PI will do these calculations and allow sorting by them as well.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I agreed with McGwire as well for #1, but thought I did something wrong.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
You guys need to be more like statboy, who just assumes that everything I say is wrong. He's at least a little right.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
continuation from #14 - If you don't like to do anything manually you can keep changing the number in your formula until there is only 1 player left.
December 11th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Thanks for your post. Based on it, I figured out how to use the arithmetic function. Very cool. I think it is interesting that while there are only a few players with careers with the run to HR ratio is less than 2.2 runs per home run, there are almost 2000 seasons like that.
December 11th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
How do I look up the person that has scored the most runs off of homers without hitting it himself?
Does that make sense?