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Goal of an offense is to score runs.

• What statistics match up with scoring runs?

• Who will help you score more runs?
  • Ichiro! (.303 BA, .350 OBP, .436 SLG, 15 HR, 54 BB, 36 SO, 33 SB), or

  • Richie Sexson (.263 BA, .369 OBP, .541 SLG, 39 HR, 89 BB, 167 SO, 1 SB)

  • They are actually almost even.

• What would a graph look like if a statistic matched up with runs perfectly? Correlation

• From 1946 to the 2003 season, look at various stats versus runs scored per game for each team.

• Correlation coefficients (r) (range from -1 to +1 with closer to zero meaning little correlation and closer to +1 or -1 positive or negative correlation).

  Strikeouts r=.08	Stolen Bases r=.09	Base on Balls r=.54
  Home Runs r=.72	Batting Average r=.83
  On-Base Percentage r=.88	Slugging Percentage r=.91	OPS r=.96

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