Thanks Sam.
I’m still studying some numbers on this. I’ll have to look at TA too to see how it lines up.

A magazine in the 80’s used to do something similar (bases/outs) and call it Total Average.

Yours uses plate appearances instead of outs, and looks like this

Rickey Henderson in 1985:

282 TB + 99 BB + 3 HBP + 80 SB – 10 CS – 8 GIDP = 446 bases

547 AB + 99 BB + 3 HBP + 5 SF = 654 plate appearance

446/654 = .682, divided by 2 = .341 PARR

kinda neat I think

Cliff – yes, that should be 2004. I’ll fix that. Thanks.

I’m starting to seeing that PARR hates guys who are singles hitters and who don’t walk a lot. (Is that a bad thing?)

But, on the flip side, if you get a guy with good OPS, RCAA, OWP, who also has a low PARR in a season, and who cannot run, I think that means he’s a good risk not to match those OPS, RCAA, OWP, etc., numbers the next year.

I think this ties into DIPs. It could. Maybe.
I’m just looking at it at a very high level.

Steve, interesting stuff. Two questions/comments: The chart above is stats for 2004 I assume? You list it as 2003. Also, just eyeballing it, PARR seems to be significantly harsher than GPA, as all these numbers seem to be about 20-30 points lower than the respective players’ GPAs.