Sandy Koufax Career Strikeouts Per Game Overview

Sandy Koufax's Strikeouts Per Game was 6.04 for his 12-year Major League Baseball career. 1965 was his best season when his Strikeouts Per Game was 8.88 and his worst season was 1956 when his Strikeouts Per Game was 1.88. Sandy Koufax outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (1.8310759784481), Y (3.5735457380756), mlb (1.8397048214166), and SP (2.5134743194636) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Strikeouts per game is a metric that shows, on average, how many strikeouts a pitcher or team's pitchers throw per game. It's caluclated by dividing strikeouts by games played for a given period. Generally, for Strikeouts Per Game, higher is better. (Source)

Sandy Koufax Lifetime Strikeouts Per Game

Stats similar to Strikeouts Per Game for Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax
Strikeouts Per Game
Career6.04
Season Avg.5.63
162 Game Avg.6.04
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Sandy Koufax Strikeouts Per Game By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sandy Koufax's yearly Strikeouts Per Game 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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Sandy Koufax Strikeouts Per Game By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Sandy Koufax's career Strikeouts Per Game changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Strikeouts Per Game Sandy Koufax had at that season in his career.
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Sandy Koufax Strikeouts Per Game By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sandy Koufax and related player groups by summarizing Strikeouts Per Game for each season played by Sandy Koufax. 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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Sandy Koufax Strikeouts Per Game Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sandy Koufax Strikeouts Per Game 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 Sandy Koufax 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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