BA Problems

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Problems

The baseball guides from which I transcribe sometimes contain errors. I notice these in mostly in the averages, either batting or fielding.

In this example (1916 Tri-Copper League, data taken from 1917 Spalding's Official Base Ball Record), there are 52 players listed. 15 of them have a different calculated batting average than is printed (29%). Four of them are within one point, so I consider that a rounding error. It would appear that some are transposition errors (.314 for .341). The AB or H might have been printed wrong.

What is a researcher to do with faulty data from sources such as this? I have been second guessing some of the math, making assumptions and 'correcting' as I see fit. I don't think that is proper. I'll be reformatting the data I've put up on this site, to include the original figures, as well as the 'corrected' figures.

In theory, the thing to do is find the original box scores and re-tabulate all the data. This will be very difficult, if not impossible to do with some leagues. We do the best with what we have.

Dr. George Schweitzer told me, regarding genealogy research, "Write down what you have. Cite your source. Keep looking for more information. It is better than nothing."

Batting Average

Yellow boxes indicate a difference in the calculated figures from the printed figures.

Year League Name Last Name Team AB H Printed
BA 		Calculated
BA
1916 Tri-Copper Brady Mines 2 1 .500 .500
1916 Tri-Copper Garrity Mill 14 6 .428 .429
1916 Tri-Copper Arbogast Mill 68 23 .338 .338
1916 Tri-Copper Bayless Mill 48 16 .333 .333
1916 Tri-Copper McDonnell Mill 110 35 .318 .318
1916 Tri-Copper Boeckel Smelter 41 14 .314 .341
1916 Tri-Copper Garrity Mines 56 17 .304 .304
1916 Tri-Copper Metz Mines 10 3 .300 .300
1916 Tri-Copper Davis Mill 40 12 .300 .300
1916 Tri-Copper Scanlon Mines 70 16 .296 .229
1916 Tri-Copper Delhi Mines 72 20 .288 .278
1916 Tri-Copper Carisch Mill 98 28 .286 .286
1916 Tri-Copper DeMaggio Mines 128 31 .284 .242
1916 Tri-Copper Conley Mines 14 4 .263 .286
1916 Tri-Copper Hearn Mill 78 20 .258 .256
1916 Tri-Copper Duddy Smelter 105 27 .257 .257
1916 Tri-Copper Whaling Smelter 32 8 .250 .250
1916 Tri-Copper Rose Mill 52 13 .250 .250
1916 Tri-Copper Hosp Mines 116 29 .247 .250
1916 Tri-Copper Stadelli Smelter 126 31 .246 .246
1916 Tri-Copper Rammage Mines 61 17 .245 .279
1916 Tri-Copper Pierce Smelter 107 26 .243 .243
1916 Tri-Copper Beaumiller Mines 96 23 .239 .240
1916 Tri-Copper Sorey Mines 46 11 .239 .239
1916 Tri-Copper Tonneman Mines 51 13 .237 .255
1916 Tri-Copper Bender Smelter 97 23 .237 .237
1916 Tri-Copper Tobin Mines 47 11 .234 .234
1916 Tri-Copper Fentress Mill 13 3 .231 .231
1916 Tri-Copper Meusel Mill 13 3 .231 .231
1916 Tri-Copper Reiger Mill 22 5 .227 .227
1916 Tri-Copper Mitchell Mines 98 23 .226 .235
1916 Tri-Copper Wachob Mines 8 2 .225 .250
1916 Tri-Copper Flick Smelter 77 17 .221 .221
1916 Tri-Copper Callan Smelter 96 21 .219 .219
1916 Tri-Copper Schwind Mill 33 7 .212 .212
1916 Tri-Copper Schilz Mill 33 7 .212 .212
1916 Tri-Copper Galena Mill 107 22 .206 .206
1916 Tri-Copper Hester Mines 31 6 .194 .194
1916 Tri-Copper MacMurdo Smelter 102 18 .176 .176
1916 Tri-Copper Guest Mill 101 17 .169 .168
1916 Tri-Copper Hughes Smelter 49 8 .163 .163
1916 Tri-Copper Dent Mill 31 5 .162 .161
1916 Tri-Copper Carnes Smelter 57 9 .158 .158
1916 Tri-Copper Munsell Smelter 46 7 .152 .152
1916 Tri-Copper Callan Smelter 27 4 .148 .148
1916 Tri-Copper Bromley Mines 42 6 .143 .143
1916 Tri-Copper Stoloff Mill 28 4 .143 .143
1916 Tri-Copper Downey Mines 43 5 .116 .116
1916 Tri-Copper Wachob Mill 17 2 .108 .118
1916 Tri-Copper Johnson Mill 19 2 .105 .105
1916 Tri-Copper Lush Mill 29 3 .104 .103
1916 Tri-Copper Miller Smelter 4 0 .000 .000

Sources / References

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