It is this equation...
Number of hits
____________
Number of at bats
That easy!
It can because players will beat out infield grounders for singles which will raise the player's batting average and, in turn, raise the team's batting average.
Only two variables affect batting average - hits and at-bats.
In the history of Major League Baseball as of 2009 there are 202 players with a career batting average of .300 or better.
There is a similar sounding trick question: On which baseball team did all the players have the same batting average as each other, both before and after the game? The answer to that is the Chicago White Sox on April 16, 1940, when Bob Feller threw his opening day no-hitter. All the players had a batting average of .000 both before and after the game. (Some will argue that technically the batting averages before the game was undefined (0 divided by 0) but standard baseball scoring shows a batting average of .000 in such a case.
There are 9 players in a baseball batting order.
Baseball is a sport that uses a lot of math. Math is important for calculating the statistics for the team and the players. Some of these statistics are batting average, earned run average, and fielding percentage.
9
Ty Cobb with a .366 batting average
add all of the starters batting averages then divide by the total amount of players
average one million
2401
Rawlings