Add up your hits, walks, and hit by pitches and divide by the number you get when adding up your at bats, walks, hit by pitches, and sacrifice flies. As an example, we'll use Albert Pujols 2011 stats ...
Hits - 173
Walks - 61
Hit by Pitches - 4
At Bats - 579
Sacrifice Flies - 7
The OBP would be calculated as ...
(173 + 61 + 4) divided by (579 + 61 + 4 + 7) which equals ...
238 divided by 651 which equals .03655 which would round to .0366.
Albert's OBP for the 2011 season was .0366.
OBP stands for On Base Percentage
On Base Percentage
Runs batted in and on base percentage.
OBP stands for On Base Percentage
In baseball, it is the person who keeps the game statistics, such as at bats, hits, runs, errors, OBP, OPS, etc.
OBA stands for "On Base Average." You also may see it referred to as OBP: "On Base Percentage."
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AVR is usually termed as AVG which stands for the players batting average. HR is the amount of home runs. RBI represents runs batted in. OBP shows a players on base percentage