Slugging Percentage Is Not a Percentage—And Why That Matters

Douglas VanDerwerken

The American Statistician, 2021, vol. 75, issue 2, 124-127

Abstract: In this short note, the asymptotic distribution of slugging percentage (SLG) in baseball is derived under multinomial sampling. It is shown that treating SLG like a binomial random variable divided by the number of trials (as is occasionally done in the literature) gives only a lower bound on the variance, which may be a considerable underestimate in practice.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2018.1564698

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