2020 HOF Slugging % for Negro League Players
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Hi,
I was looking at the stats and player cards for the 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame set, and it seems like there’s some odd SLG% calculation going on for the Negro League Players. For example, Josh Gibson has 590 AB, 216 Hits, 37 Doubles, 14 Triples, and 42 HRs. That’s 407 Total Bases for a SLG% of .690. The card reads .532, as his Total Bases are listed as 314, which is not correct. His BA and OBP calculations are spot on, and his card looks like a .366 card, too. This appears to be the case for all the Negro League Players in the collection.
On closer inspection, the difference between 407 and 314 is 93, which is the # of EBHs attributed to Gibson. Same for Louis Santop (257 vs 207, with 50 EBHs) and Biz Mackey (266 vs 215 with 51 EBHs). It appears like the # of EBHs was subtracted to get the # of singles, but the follow-on multipliers were not 2x2B, 3x3B, 4xHR, but 1x2B, 2x3B, 3xHR. That would get you 314 instead of 407.
Bob
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Looks great! Thanks for turning that around so quickly.
Bob
