June 12, 2012

OBP and Slugging

I’m fooling around with Tableau Public, and created this graph of OBP versus slugging percentage for batting qualifiers. You can hover over a dot and see who it represents, as well as his stats. I’ve marked some players on the outer edges of the field, as these players tend to be outliers. Note that they form pairs of players with similar OPS, but the lower and to the right should be batting behind the one higher and further to the left, as you want the one with the higher OBP batting in front of the one with the better power. I believe there are controls that allow you to zoom in and out. Have fun.

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