What is the batting avg of a player who has walked but earned no at bats?
Question:Some have said that the batter has a 1.000 batting average and others say that the batter has a 0.000 average.
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.000 a walk is considered a no at bat.BUT the "on base percentage" would be 1.000He has no average. you cannot divide by zero, unless of course you are Chuck Norris.
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its a .000 average. you don't have any hits our at bats, your average can't increase until you have at least one hit.Is Lidge going to get his closer spot back?
.000, he had no at batsHis actual batting average will be 0.000 however his OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) will go up to a 1.000 or even higher. It will not hurt his batting average at all though because it will look like he didn't have any at-bats.
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Mathematically he has no batting average; avg equals hits divided by at-bats, and you cannot divide by zero. However, some sources will list his average as .000 even though this is technically incorrect.It is without question .000
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Without any at-bats, a batting average cannot exist.It all comes down to math. Use a good calculator and enter the following problem: 1 divided by 0. The answer the calculator gives you is the answer to your question, and I can guarantee you that a good calculator will display some kind of error message.
Bad calculators will give the answer as 0, so make sure you've got a good calculator before doing this.
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