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I guess. Once a player's numbers are large enough, you can subtract BA from OBP to get a rough idea/ballpark figure of that player's walk rate.

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Then what are we even talking about here? Looks like a multi-comment multi-day discussion on something that takes 3 seconds to look up. I think you can even get rolling averages from Savant if you want.

Subtracting BA from OBP gives you a quick and easy roundabout ballpark figure of a player's walk rate. It won't give you the precise number for reasons discussed, but it'll yield a pretty close number and give you a decent idea of that player's walk rate. It's easier than looking up the actual walk rate. You almost never get a player's walk rate. The stat doesn't appear on the back of baseball cards and hardly ever comes up in news article about a particular player. You commonly get the player's slash line, though. Mentally subtracting BA from OBP is way quicker than linking to a web site, typing in a player's name, waiting for everything to load, and then scanning the site for the player's walk rate.



What FK does is something else. He has some unique personalized method for calculating walk rate that produces what he calls a player's walk rate. It works for him. But it's not a walk rate and it's not even an approximation because FK's method produces a whole number whereas a walk rate is a percentage and almost never higher than 20% or .2 Only FK could possibly know what a "walk rate" of 108 means.

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Then what are we even talking about here? Looks like a multi-comment multi-day discussion on something that takes 3 seconds to look up. I think you can even get rolling averages from Savant if you want. Subtracting BA from OBP gives you a quick and easy roundabout ballpark figure of a player's walk rate. It won't give you the precise number for reasons discussed, but it'll yield a pretty close number and give you a decent idea of that player's walk rate. It's easier than looking up the actual walk rate. You almost never get a player's walk rate. The stat doesn't appear on the back of baseball cards and hardly ever comes up in news article about a particular player. You commonly get the player's slash line, though. Mentally subtracting BA from OBP is way quicker than linking to a web site, typing in a player's name, waiting for everything to load, and then scanning the site for the player's walk rate. What FK does is something else. He has some unique personalized method for calculating walk rate that produces what he calls a player's walk rate. It works for him. But it's not a walk rate and it's not even an approximation because FK's method produces a whole number whereas a walk rate is a percentage and almost never higher than 20% or .2 Only FK could possibly know what a "walk rate" of 108 means.

I don't know if I've ever looked at the back of a baseball card. And you're clearly reading the wrong news articles.

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Then what are we even talking about here? Looks like a multi-comment multi-day discussion on something that takes 3 seconds to look up. I think you can even get rolling averages from Savant if you want. Subtracting BA from OBP gives you a quick and easy roundabout ballpark figure of a player's walk rate. It won't give you the precise number for reasons discussed, but it'll yield a pretty close number and give you a decent idea of that player's walk rate. It's easier than looking up the actual walk rate. You almost never get a player's walk rate. The stat doesn't appear on the back of baseball cards and hardly ever comes up in news article about a particular player. You commonly get the player's slash line, though. Mentally subtracting BA from OBP is way quicker than linking to a web site, typing in a player's name, waiting for everything to load, and then scanning the site for the player's walk rate. What FK does is something else. He has some unique personalized method for calculating walk rate that produces what he calls a player's walk rate. It works for him. But it's not a walk rate and it's not even an approximation because FK's method produces a whole number whereas a walk rate is a percentage and almost never higher than 20% or .2 Only FK could possibly know what a "walk rate" of 108 means. I don't know if I've ever looked at the back of a baseball card. And you're clearly reading the wrong news articles.

Give me a break. I'm not looking at the "wrong articles". "Articles" just don't mention a player's "walk rate". You can go ahead and "one-up" me by linking to an article or three that reference(s) a player's walk rate but you won't be proving anything. You'll just be cherry-picking. Because those one or three articles will be like one or three out of a thousand articles.