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out of the blue..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:01 am
by scorehouse
i've had 2 heated discussions on calculating Stolen Base Percentage recently. please just post a numerical answer to the following then i'll ask for the explanation behind it later. thanks so here goes. your team steals 100 bases and gets thrown out 30 times. what is the teams Stolen Base Percentage Number. remember just an answer, no explanation YET. thanks

Re: out of the blue..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:19 am
by paul8210
76.9230769230769

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:47 am
by coachprbb
paul is correct
math shouldn't cause a heated discussion...math is math

Re: out of the blue..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:07 pm
by FrankieT
oh gosh would like to hear what could be so heated about addition and division

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:18 pm
by scorehouse
correct. trying to explain its not 30 out 0f 100 but 30 outta 130.

Re: out of the blue..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:20 pm
by freeman
100/130=76.92 seems pretty straightforward.

Re: out of the blue..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:31 pm
by bigmahon
Bizarre thread :D

Re: out of the blue..

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:13 pm
by Hittmens
I was told there wouldn't be math