Rickey Henderson Career Stolen Base Percentage Overview

Rickey Henderson's Stolen Base Percentage was 80.76 for his 25-year Major League Baseball career. 2003 was his best season when his Stolen Base Percentage was 100 and his worst season was 1996 when his Stolen Base Percentage was 71.15. Rickey Henderson outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.644093), Baby Boomers (0.539603), Y (0.734332), mlb (0.637416), and LF (0.671844) 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)

Rickey Henderson Lifetime Stolen Base Percentage

Stats similar to Stolen Base Percentage for Rickey Henderson
Rickey Henderson
Stolen Base Percentage
Career80.76
Season Avg.80.93
162 Game Avg.80.76
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Rickey Henderson Stolen Base Percentage By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Rickey Henderson'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, LF, 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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Rickey Henderson Stolen Base Percentage By Year Change

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

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

This table shows Rickey Henderson 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, LF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Rickey Henderson 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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