Talk:Slugging percentage

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[edit] Repairs

Eliminated malicious edits including "Fart" and "Sex." Children. NRK (talk) 18:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Formula

By definition MLB.COM uses TB divided by at bats. Their formula for total bases is (s+2d+3t+4hr) so why should we have the other formula??? before editing the page that was just a complete mess, i swear, i did not get a word of what you guys (or girls) were saying. It was completely confusing and it still is. We should have only one formula and we should use the formula MLB uses. and please, before changing the formulas discuss it first, don't just do whatever you want and change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cesarcossio (talk • contribs) 24 July 2006

I agree. Your changes seem to have simplified matters. -Phoenixrod 22:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I was just curious if Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a grand slam in the very first pitch of his very first at bat.



[edit] Article title

Why is this article "Slugging average" and not "Slugging percentage"? I realize that, to quote the rather sanctimonious article, "The term slugging percentage is a misnomer, as it is actually a calculation of average, not percent", but Wikipedia is descriptive, not prescriptive, as far as I know. I am a huge baseball nut, and very few people in the game call it slugging average; almost every source I know prefers "slugging percentage". Even the external link about Branch Rickey uses "percentage". Heck, Wikipedia's article on OBP is "on base percentage" even though the same argument could be applied there. Let's get some consistency between articles! Is there any reason not to rename this article slugging percentage and reflect the more common usage? -Phoenixrod 22:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

to be honest, i didn't noticed that but you are right, even if it is a misnomer, that's what people call it, "slugging percentage" and that's the way it should be call. I do not see any reasons not to rename the article (being a misnomer is not a reason AND Major League Baseball call it "slugging percentage" and so does everybody else (high schools, colleges, etc) --CesarCossio 07:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
It appears that User:24.126.40.49 (contributions), without discussion, moved the info from "slugging percentage" into "slugging average" on 25 January 2006. I think we should let other editors chime in, but if no one objects, we should switch the article titles. I'm just not entirely sure how to do that. :) -Phoenixrod 19:38, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
haha, that's funny 'cause i don't know how to do that either.--CesarCossio 00:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Move immediately. OBP is at on-base percentage, BA is at batting average despite both being misnomers. Woodshed 09:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Dude, if you didn't read what we said, neither of us know how to do that. I tried but i can't get it back to the way it was before 'cause in order for you to move a page the page to which you wanna move it has to be a new page but "Slugging Percentage" has been used before so i can't move it back. If you can move it go ahead and do it.--CesarCossio 20:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Since "Slugging Percentage" already exists (and contains only a redirect), couldn't you just copy the content of this page into it and then AfD this one. The ZenMacher 03:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Done.128.12.20.10 04:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article title redux

I haven't looked at this page in a while, but the article has been moved back to "slugging average" without discussion. Why? The most common term I see is "slugging percentage", so that's where the article should be. Comments? -Phoenixrod 20:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I completely agree. Even MLB uses "percentage", so technically correct or not, this article should be at "Slugging percentage". -albrozdude 01:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
agreed, and it's not just MLB - baseball reference, baseball prospectus, ESPN, and SABR all use the term "slugging percentage." Google searches for "Slugging Percentage" yield around ten times the hits than searches for "Slugging Average" do. I had honestly never even heard of the term "Slugging Average" until i read it being referred to in the article. Theroyalweman (talk|user|contribs) 13:47, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Well I've cleaned up the article considerably, and in doing so also changed all references to "slugging average" to "slugging percentage". Now we just need an admin to move this page to "slugging percentage" since that page already exists. I'll submit a move request and see if I can get this done. -albrozdude 08:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Nice work! -Phoenixrod 03:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the page, per the discussion here. Cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 00:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)