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Baseball Harmony

Bill James used Harmonic Average to create the Power Speed # as seen on

Baseball-Reference.com.

Harmonic Average weights to the lowest, so players must be good at each in order to rank highly.

To create this set and system, Harmonic Average was used to create three sets of data in the different styles of baseball for position players.


Small Ball Harmony: The Harmonic Average of BB, 1B and Sac+SB

(3*BB*1B*Sac+SB) / [(BB*1B)+(BB*Sac+SB)+(1B*Sac+SB)]


Middle Ball Harmony: The Harmonic Average of BB, 1B and 2B

(3*BB*1B*2B) / [(BB*1B)+(BB*2B)+(1B*2B)]


Big Ball Harmony: The Harmonic Average of BB, XBH and RBI

(3*BB*XBH*RBI) / [(BB*XBH)+(BB*RBI)+(XBH*RBI)]


Players must rank well enough in each category to rank highly in each style.

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