Steve Carlton Career Stolen Base Percentage Overview

Steve Carlton's Stolen Base Percentage was 50 for his 24-year Major League Baseball career. 1979 was his best season when his Stolen Base Percentage was 100 and his worst season was 1965 when his Stolen Base Percentage was 0. Steve Carlton outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.644093), The Silent Generation (0.495699), Y (0.734332), mlb (0.637416), and SP (0.333275) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Stolen base percentage (SBP or SB%) is a metric designed to show often a player or team's players are successfully able to steal bases compared to how often they attempt. It's calculated by dividing stolen bases by the number of attempts for a given time period. Generally, for Stolen Base Percentage, higher is better. (Source)

Steve Carlton Lifetime Stolen Base Percentage

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Steve Carlton
Stolen Base Percentage
Career50
Season Avg.6.25
162 Game Avg.50
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Steve Carlton Stolen Base Percentage By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Steve Carlton's yearly Stolen Base Percentage for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Steve Carlton Stolen Base Percentage By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Steve Carlton's career Stolen Base Percentage changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Stolen Base Percentage Steve Carlton had at that season in his career.
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Steve Carlton Stolen Base Percentage By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Steve Carlton and related player groups by summarizing Stolen Base Percentage for each season played by Steve Carlton. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!
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Steve Carlton Stolen Base Percentage Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Steve Carlton Stolen Base Percentage stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Steve Carlton career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.
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