(Tool) RBI Baseball Calculator

[Baron von Lector]

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RBI Baseball Calculator

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Putting my Visual Basic college classes to good use, I've created a calculator to help determine Batter ratings when putting together RBI Baseball ROMs.  Using the data from the original RBI Baseball, I created a formula (seen here) to help determine Power and Contact ratings. 

 

The interface is simple.  Enter a player's batting average.  Enter a player's homeruns.  Click Calculate.

 

Keep in mind, this calculator is only for determining batting ratings.  Running speed and pitching calculators will come, added to the batting calculator, at a later date.

 

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• Submitter
  Baron von Lector
• Submitted
  04/29/2016
• Category
  Editors, Tools & Misc

[TheFes75]

How do you differentiate between a guy who hits say 30 homeruns in 600 at bats or plate appearances and a guy who hits 30 homeruns in 300 at bats or plate appearances?  While they both hit 30 homeruns, one guy hit 1 in every 20 at bats and the other hit 1 every 10 at bats. Just wondering if that was figured into the equation somehow. Awesome work by the way!

[Baron von Lector]

Much thanks.  That's something I'm going to feature in an update where you can input a player's at-bats and games, and then have it pro-rate for a 162-game season (if you choose).  Right now, it's just straight up numbers, so Travis Story's 10 HR in 100 at-bats this season is the same as Steve Sax's 10 HR in 600+ AB in 1991.

[Baron von Lector]

@TheFes75 I've updated the RBI Ratings Calculator to include the option to pro-rate a player's statistics over a 162 game or 600 at-bat season. 

[TheFes75]

Awesome job, now you can rate players on somewhat of an even keel especially for guys who have a better HR/per at bat ratio.  This looks to be a way to capture when someone had a "magical" season like Dave Justice in 1990 was called up after about 35 games or so and had a big year in 3/4 of a season. He hit 282 with 28 Home Runs in 428 AB's. That would correlate to around 39 Home Runs over a 600 AB season.