OBP = (hits + walks + hit by pitch)/(at-bats + walks + sacrifice flies + hit by pitch)
SLG = (total bases)/(at-bats)
OPS improves on the standard batting average statistic in several ways. First, batting average fails to take into account walks and being hit by a pitch. On-base percentage corrects that omission of batting average. Second, batting average fails to take into account power. Obviously, if two guys hit for the same batting average and walk the same amount of times, the guy who hits for more power is going to be a more valuable hitter. Slugging percentage corrects this omission of batting average. Improving on batting average's two primary faults, OPS is one of the best, easiest to find advanced statistic for evaluating hitters. Nearly any website devoted to baseball will have OPS as a searchable statistic. Even ESPN.com now has OPS numbers in a player's statistics page. If you can't find OPS, you can calculate it simply by adding on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
2010 leaders in OPS:
1. Josh Hamilton- 1.044
2. Miguel Cabrera- 1.042
3. Joey Votto- 1.024
4. Albert Pujols- 1.011
5. Jose Bautista- 0.995
6. Paul Konerko- 0.977
7. Carlos Gonzalez- 0.974
8. Troy Tulowitzki- 0.949
9. Matt Holliday- 0.922
10. Jayson Werth- 0.921
League average OPS is 0.728
Heard on a Detroit radio show that among those with the qualifying amount of at-bats for this stat, the Tigers have 4 players in the bottom ten of this category. Fire Dave Dombrowski.
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