Babe Ruth Total Average

Babe Ruth Career Total Average Overview

Babe Ruth's Total Average was 1.421 for his 22-year Major League Baseball career. 1920 was his best season when his Total Average was 1.856 and his worst season was 1914 when his Total Average was 0.375. Babe Ruth outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.628342), The Lost Generation (0.628594), Y (0.841924), mlb (0.626148), and RF (0.686598) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

Total average (TA) is a metric that designed to measure a players overall offensive conrtributions. It's calculated by dividing total bases, walks, hit by pitch, and stolen bases by at bats that did not result in a hit, times caught stealing, and times grounded into a double play. Generally, for Total Average, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Total Average

Stats similar to Total Average for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth Total Average
Career	1.421
Season Avg.	1.28
162 Game Avg.	1.421
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Babe Ruth Total Average By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Total Average for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Babe Ruth Total Average By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Babe Ruth's career Total Average changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career Total Average Babe Ruth had at that season in his career.

Babe Ruth Total Average By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Total Average for each season played by Babe Ruth. 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!

Babe Ruth Total Average Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth Total Average 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Babe Ruth 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.