Ty Cobb Career Stolen Base Percentage Overview

Ty Cobb's Stolen Base Percentage was 83.43 for his 24-year Major League Baseball career. 1905 was his best season when his Stolen Base Percentage was 100 and his worst season was 1928 when his Stolen Base Percentage was 38.46. Ty Cobb outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.644093), The Lost Generation (0.736868), Y (0.734332), mlb (0.637416), and CF (0.714012) 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)

Ty Cobb Lifetime Stolen Base Percentage

Stats similar to Stolen Base Percentage for Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
Stolen Base Percentage
Career83.43
Season Avg.79.48
162 Game Avg.83.43
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Ty Cobb Stolen Base Percentage By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Ty Cobb'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, CF, 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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Ty Cobb Stolen Base Percentage By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Ty Cobb and related player groups by summarizing Stolen Base Percentage for each season played by Ty Cobb. 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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Ty Cobb Stolen Base Percentage Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Ty Cobb 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, CF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Ty Cobb 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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