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Sample Stat Line

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	XR
1983	23	BER		55	37	4	12	2	0	0	3	1	0	5	4	.324	.405	.378	.783	5.9
1984	24	AAA		162	651	94	156	44	3	28	106	0	2	60	123	.240	.304	.445	.749	87.9
1985	25	AAA		123	329	44	93	16	4	22	53	1	0	17	60	.283	.318	.556	.874	56.2
1986	26	AAA		160	605	88	141	31	2	30	98	1	0	61	85	.233	.303	.440	.743	83.0
1987	27	AAA		126	351	60	95	21	5	19	76	0	0	25	54	.271	.319	.521	.841	56.6
1988	28	BER	IL	46	101	15	19	2	1	5	12	2	0	9	17	.188	.255	.376	.631	10.4
		AAA		19	59	6	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	2	10	.153	.180	.203	.384	1.1
1989	29	BER	IL	15	15	0	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.267	.267	.400	.667	1.4
		AAA		131	538	73	143	44	4	24	74	0	0	44	95	.266	.321	.496	.818	82.9
1990	30	BER	IL	11	11	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.364	.364	.455	.818	1.6
		AAA		133	536	88	155	32	6	31	109	1	0	37	87	.289	.335	.545	.880	93.1
3 Years Sim				72	127	15	27	5	1	5	15	2	0	9	23	.213	.265	.386	.651	13.3
4 Years Pro				127	164	19	39	7	1	5	18	3	0	14	27	.238	.298	.384	.682	19.3
7 Years AAA				854	3069	453	792	189	25	154	519	3	2	246	514	.258	.311	.486	.797	460.8
162 Game Average					285	33	60	11	2	11	33	4	0	20	51	.213	.265	.386	.651	30.0
Career Highs				46	101	15	19	2	1	5	12	2	0	9	17	.188	.255	.376	.631	10.4

All pre-sim seasons, simmed seasons where the player had at least 1 plate appearance, and minor league seasons are listed. The Team and Lg listed is the team and league the player played for at the end of the season. The OOTP database does not provide a way to track a player's stats when that player plays for more than 1 team in any one year. The only way to get this information would be to track a player's stats from the boxscores, game-by-game. This is obviously too time consuming to do. So, the statistical anomalies this creates will just have to be ignored.

Here is a breakdown of the above stats:

Stat Description

Year The year the season occured

Age Player's age on July 1st of that year

Tm The last team the player played on that year

Lg The league the team is in

G Number of games the player batted in

AB At-Bats

R Runs Scored

H Hits

2B Doubles

3B Triples

HR Homeruns

RBI Runs Batted In

SB Stolen Bases

CS Caught Stealing

BB Walks

SO Strikeouts

BA Batting Average = H / AB

OBP On Base Percentage = (H + BB + HBP) / (AB + BB + SF + HBP)

SLG Slugging Percentage = (1B + 2*2B + 3*3B + 4*HR) / AB

OPS On Base Plus Slugging (Excellent and simple estimate of offensive ability) = OBP + SLG

XR eXtrapolated Runs - Another measure of offensive ability, see Jim Furtado's website for explanation and formula

The following are added on the team recap pages:

OWS Offensive Win Shares. From the Bill James book, Win Shares.

DWS Defensive Win Shares. From the Bill James book, Win Shares.

Next is the career totals lines. The first line will be the totals from all the simmed seasons. Next, if the player has pre-sim stats, this will show the totals from all pre-sim and simmed years. Finally, totals of stats from each level of minors, if any, are shown, along with a total minor league stats line, if the player played at more than one level in the minor leagues.

The next line is the players's 162-game season average. This line indicates a player's career numbers prorated to 162 games. Basically you divide the stat by the number of games played and multiply by 162.

The last line lists the player's career high in each statistical category. This is not their best season, but the best for each individual stat regardless of which year it occured. For the rate stats (BA, OBP, SLG, OPS, xR) of a particular year to qualify, the player's number of plate appearances that year must be atleast 75% of his career average number of plate appearances. Career highs are only listed for players who played more than one simmed season.