secavg: Secondary Average

In peterxeno/sabermetrics-package: Sabermetrics Functions for Baseball Analytics

Description

Secondary average measure the sum of extra bases gained on hits, walks and stolen bases.

Usage

secavg(ab, bb, tb, h, sb, cs)

Arguments

ab	At Bats
bb	Walks
tb	Total Bases
h	Hits
sb	Stolen Bases
cs	Caught Stealing

Details

SecAvg shares no correlation with batting average although overall league averages are inclined to correspond with league batting averages.

Value

Returns a numerical value equal to (bb+tb-h+sb-cs)/ab

Author(s)

Peter Xenopoulos

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_average

See Also

ops,slg,iso

Examples

## The function is currently defined as
function (ab, bb, tb, h, sb, cs) 
{
    SecA <- (bb + tb - h + sb - cs)/ab
    return(SecA)
  }

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