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| - Batting Average is a Newgrounds term expressing the average score of the top three submissions of an author. As it says in the Newgrounds official Wiki: Like the Alpha section, they were affected by the '07 redesign; they became bugged and have never been fixed. Since BA is determined by your three highest scoring flashes, anyone who had three or more submissions before the redesign is stuck with their pre-redesign BA, and everyone else does not have one until the bug is fixed. According to Auz it was originally an average of all of a user's submissions.
- In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined as the ratio of hits to at bats. Henry Chadwick, an English statistician raised on cricket, was an influential figure in the early history of baseball. In the late 19th century he adapted the concept behind the cricket batting average to devise a similar statistic for baseball. Rather than take the naive approach and simply copy cricket's formulation of runs scored divided by outs, he realised that hits divided by at bats would provide a better measure of individual batting ability. This is because of an intrinsic difference between the two sports; scoring runs in cricket is dependent almost only on one's own batting skill, whereas in baseball it is largely dependent on having other good hitters in your team. Chadwick noted that hits are ind
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| - In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined as the ratio of hits to at bats. Henry Chadwick, an English statistician raised on cricket, was an influential figure in the early history of baseball. In the late 19th century he adapted the concept behind the cricket batting average to devise a similar statistic for baseball. Rather than take the naive approach and simply copy cricket's formulation of runs scored divided by outs, he realised that hits divided by at bats would provide a better measure of individual batting ability. This is because of an intrinsic difference between the two sports; scoring runs in cricket is dependent almost only on one's own batting skill, whereas in baseball it is largely dependent on having other good hitters in your team. Chadwick noted that hits are independent of teammates' skills, so used this as the basis for the baseball batting average. His reason for using at bats rather than outs is less obvious, but it leads to the intuitive idea of the batting average being a percentage reflecting how often a batter gets on base, whereas hits divided by outs is not as simple to interpret in real terms. In modern times, a season batting average higher than .300 is considered to be good, and an average higher than .400 a nearly unachievable goal. The last player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who hit .406 in 1941, though the best modern players either threaten to or actually do achieve it occasionally, if only for brief periods of time. The last NL player to bat .400 was Bill Terry of the New York Giants, who batted .401 in 1930. Ty Cobb holds the record for highest career batting average with .366, 8 points higher than Rogers Hornsby who has the second highest average in history at .358. Cobb's career batting average record will probably never be broken, since even the best of modern hitters find it difficult to hit higher than .360 in more than one or two seasons, let alone consistently throughout their entire careers. The record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2500 at-bats belongs to Bill Bergen, a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 average in 3,028 career at-bats. The modern-era record for highest batting average for a season is held by Napoleon Lajoie, who hit .426 in 1901, the first year of play for the American League. The modern-era record for lowest batting average for a player that qualified for the batting title is held by Rob Deer, who hit .179 in 1991. The highest batting average for a rookie (based on today's rookie standards) was .408 by Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1911; NL high was .373, set in 1930 by George Watkins of the St.Louis Cardinals. For non-pitchers, a batting average below .250 is poor, and one below .200 is totally unacceptable. This latter level is known as "The Mendoza Line", named either for Mario Mendoza, a stellar defensive shortstop who hit .215 during his Major League career, or for Minnie Mendoza, also a shortstop, who was a long-time minor-league player who finally reached the majors briefly in 1970 at the age of 36 and hit .188 in 16 games. The league batting average in Major League Baseball for 2004 was just higher than .266, and the all-time league average is between .260 and .275. Sabermetrics, the study of baseball statistics, considers batting average a weak measure of performance because it does not correlate as well as other measures to runs scored, and because it has little predictive value. Batting average does not take into account walks or power, whereas newer statistics such as on-base percentage and slugging percentage have been specifically designed to measure such concepts. Others would say that batting average is the most important measure of the performance of a hitter since it takes into account his consistency and his ability to perform as an individual independent of what his teammates have done. In 1887, Major League Baseball counted bases on balls as hits. The result of this was skyrocketed batting averages, including some near .500, and the experiment was abandoned the following season. For standardization, the 1887 averages and hit totals have been adjusted.
- Batting Average is a Newgrounds term expressing the average score of the top three submissions of an author. As it says in the Newgrounds official Wiki: Like the Alpha section, they were affected by the '07 redesign; they became bugged and have never been fixed. Since BA is determined by your three highest scoring flashes, anyone who had three or more submissions before the redesign is stuck with their pre-redesign BA, and everyone else does not have one until the bug is fixed. Before the '07 redesign, the BA used to be on authors Userpage and was often quoted and considered a key ranking on Newgrounds. As Highwatermark says in An Expert's Guide to NG from 2007 "An A+ Batting Average can categorize you as an expert flash author and getting this is a great achievement". However since it is not fully functional it is largely ignored and appears only on the author search, where it goes mostly unnoticed. According to Auz it was originally an average of all of a user's submissions.
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