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Stolen Base Percentage

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`SB% = ( SB )/( SB + CS )`
`(SB)"number of stolen bases"`
`(CS)"number of caught stealing"`
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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:

  • (SB) This is the number of stolen bases 
  • (CS) This is the number of time the runner was caught stealing

Stolen Base Percentage (SBP): The calculator returns the successful percentage.

The Math / Science

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:

  • SBP = Stolen Base Percentage
  • SB = number of stolen base (number of bases advanced by the runner while the ball is in possession of the defense
  • CS = number of caught stealing (times tagged out while attempting to steal a base)


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Baseball Base Separation:

References

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_base_percentage and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_statistics)


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