The Stolen Base Percentage calculator computes the stolen base percentage based on the bases stolen and number of times caught stealing.
INSTRUCTIONS: Enter the following:
Stolen Base Percentage (SBP): The calculator returns the successful percentage.
The Stolen Base Percentage in Baseball measures the rate of success in stealing bases. Because stolen bases tend to help a team less than times caught stealing hurt, a player needs to have a high stolen base percentage in order to contribute much value to his team. A commonly used figure is that a player needs to succeed about 2/3 of the time to break even. The stolen base percentage is the percentage of bases stolen successfully divided by the stolen bases attempted. The formula for stolen base percentage is:
SBP = (SB)/(SB - CS)
where:
Baseball Base Separation:
References
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_base_percentage and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_statistics)