How do you calculate Slugging Percentages in Baseball?


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In short: Total bases from hits (no walks) divided by At Bats (not plate appearances).
Example: Batter gets two singles and two doubles in four times at bat. That's 6 total bases / 4 = 1.500 Slugging%.
Now lets say he gets two singles and two homers in 15 at bats. That's 10 total bases / 15 = .667 Slg %.

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Slug= Singles (x1) + Doubles (x2)+ Triples (x3) + Home Runs (x4) / at bats

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The formula (from baseball-almanac.com) is:

Number of (Singles + [2 x Doubles] +[ 3 x Triples] + [4 x Home Runs]) divided by At Bats.

Walks count as plate appearances, but NOT as At Bats.Only hits are used in calculating SLG%.

For example, in 2003 Barry Bonds had 133 hits in 390 At Bats. The breakdown was as follows:

45 HR
1 3B
22 2B
65 1B

Using the above formula we get (65 + [2 x 22] + [3 x 1] + [4 x 45]) / 390

(65 + 44 + 3 + 180) / 390
(292) / 390 = .7487 SLG%

MLB.com also lists the SLG% as .749 Walks do not come into the calculation at any point.

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Total Bases / At bats.

Every plate appearance that ends in anything either than a walk, a HBP, a sac hit, a sac fly or reaching on catcher's interference is an at bat

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Slugging Percentage is total bases (on hits only - not on walks, fielders' choices or errors) / at bats (not plate appearances)

For instance - if I go 3 for 5 with a double and a walk, my batting average is .600; my obp (on-base percentage) is .667 (4 times on base in 6 plate appearances) and my slugging percentage is .800 (four total bases in five official ABs).

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To speed things up, since singles data isn't typically available,

SLG == (hits + doubles + 2*triples +3*homers) / at-bats

conventionally to three decimals.

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