preraphaelite-sisterhood

[zenruption]

Not A Baseball Nerd? Want To Know What Slugging Percentage Is?

Slugging percentage is a statistic used in baseball to measure a player's ability to hit for power. It is calculated by dividing the total number of bases a player has earned by the total number of at-bats. 

To calculate slugging percentage, you first count the number of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs a player has hit during a given period of time, such as a season or a game. Each single counts as one base, each double as two bases, each triple as three bases, and each home run as four bases. You then add up the total number of bases the player has earned from these hits.

Next, you divide the total number of bases by the total number of at-bats to get the slugging percentage. At-bats include all plate appearances except for walks, hit-by-pitches, sacrifices, and catcher's interference. 

For example, if a player has 100 at-bats and has hit 20 singles, 10 doubles, 5 triples, and 5 home runs, their total number of bases would be (20 x 1) + (10 x 2) + (5 x 3) + (5 x 4) = 75. Dividing 75 by 100 at-bats gives a slugging percentage of .750.

Slugging percentage provides a measure of a player's overall hitting ability, as it takes into account not only the number of hits, but also the quality of those hits. Players with higher slugging percentages are generally considered to be more effective at hitting for power and driving in runs.

[zibanejad]

the top line is gerrit cole's career batting totals. the bottom line is josh donaldson's 2023 season. now:

[muntzerism-diggerism]

Mr. President a second American League Central first baseman has aquired all the smoke

[readyforevolution]

Gibson will be recognized as the game's all-time leader in batting average (.372), slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177). He will pass Hall of Fame outfielder Ty Cobb in the first category and Hall of Fame outfielder Babe Ruth in the other two.

Gibson appears set to demolish the single-season record book as well. His .466 batting average for the 1943 Homestead Grays will eclipse Hall of Fame outfielder Hugh Duffy's hallowed .440 in 1894, and his .974 slugging percentage for the 1937 Grays is also a record.

"When you hear Josh Gibson’s name now, it’s not just that he was the greatest player in the Negro Leagues,’’ Sean Gibson, Gibson’s great-grandson, told Nightengale, “but one of the greatest of all time. These aren’t just Negro League stats. They’re Major League Baseball stats."

[plaguedocboi]

It genuinely concerns me that so many people don’t seem to know that snails are attached to their shells. I feel like it’s at least once a week that I tell someone this (USUALLY ADULTS) and they’re amazed. A large percentage of the public seems to believe that any animal with a shell is like a hermit crab who changes them as they grow. Yes a snail is born with their shell and it is part of them. It’s like our skeleton. No slugs are not snails that have discarded their old shell and are looking for new ones. Their shells are just heavily reduced or internal. Why is that not common knowledge

[sibylsleaves]

Clipboard Buck and baseball would actually be a lethal combo.

Imagine he does learn enough to score keep. And he keeps track of everyone's stats - batting average, errors, on base percentage etc.

Eddie would be so pleased that Buck knows his ERA is better against left handed batters, while Chim would want to strangle Buck when he advises Bobby to swap him out for a pinch hitter in the ninth inning because Chim's slugging percentage is too low.

i can definitely see buck getting super into the statistics aspect of baseball and meticulously keeping track of every play...these are part of his duties as the designated benchwarmer. once bobby realizes it's actually USEFUL he invites buck back, over hen & chim's protests.

honestly baseball could be the ultimate sport to support both buck and eddie's kinks...buck gets to see him be super hot and competent and wear tight pants and eddie gets clipboard buck.

[whenweallvote]

Long, overdue good news: Negro League statistics will be integrated into MLB historical record!

Stats from the more than 2,300 players from seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 will be included in the MLB’s database — including legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson, who will become the single-season record holder in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS. Previous record holders for those three categories were Barry Bonds, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth.

[justinssportscorner]

Anthony Castrovince at MLB.com:

Major League Baseball’s embrace of the Negro Leagues is now recognized in the record book, resulting in new-look leaderboards fronted in several prominent places by Hall of Famer Josh Gibson and an overdue appreciation of many other Black stars.

Following the 2020 announcement that seven different Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 would be recognized as Major Leagues, MLB announced Wednesday that it has followed the recommendations of the independent Negro League Statistical Review Committee in absorbing the available Negro Leagues numbers into the official historical record. "We are proud that the official historical record now includes the players of the Negro Leagues," Commissioner Rob Manfred said. "This initiative is focused on ensuring that future generations of fans have access to the statistics and milestones of all those who made the Negro Leagues possible. Their accomplishments on the field will be a gateway to broader learning about this triumph in American history and the path that led to Jackie Robinson’s 1947 Dodger debut."

Gibson, the legendary catcher and power hitter who played for the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS and holds the all-time single-season records in each of those categories. Gibson is one of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues players -- including three living players who played in the 1920-1948 era in Bill Greason, Ron Teasley and Hall of Famer Willie Mays -- included in a newly integrated database at MLB.com that combines the Negro Leagues numbers with the existing data from the American League, National League and other Major Leagues from history. “The Negro Leagues were a product of segregated America, created to give opportunity where opportunity did not exist,” said Negro Leagues expert and historian Larry Lester. “As Bart Giamatti, former Commissioner of Baseball, once said, ‘We must never lose sight of our history, insofar as it is ugly, never to repeat it, and insofar as it is glorious, to cherish it.’”

[...]

Why are the Negro Leagues being added to the historical record?

Essentially, to right a wrong. It certainly was not the fault of Black baseball stars such as Gibson, Cool Papa Bell and Oscar Charleston that they were forbidden from participating in the AL or NL, and recognizing the Negro Leagues as Major Leagues is in keeping with long-held beliefs that the quality of the segregation-era Negro Leagues circuits was comparable to the MLB product in that same time period.

[...]

Which Negro Leagues will be included in the official record?

There are seven, and they operated between 1920 and 1948. The reason for the starting point is that attempts to develop Negro Leagues prior to 1920 were ultimately unsuccessful and lacked a league structure. And 1948 was deemed to be a reasonable end point because it was the last year of the Negro National League and the segregated World Series. After that point, the Negro League teams and leagues that had endured were stripped of much of their talent.

The seven leagues are as follows:

• Negro National League (I) (1920–1931) • Eastern Colored League (1923–1928) • American Negro League (1929) • East-West League (1932) • Negro Southern League (1932) • Negro National League (II) (1933–1948) • Negro American League (1937–1948)

Major League Baseball is recognizing the stats of 7 different Negro Leagues between 1920 and 1948 into the record book. This comes almost four years after the league announced that the leagues would be classified as Major Leagues.

See Also:

Yahoo! Sports: Negro Leagues statistics to be officially integrated into MLB historical record

[rainworldroompoll]

ROUND 2 IS OVER

So round 2 is done! What now?!

So next round will start next week (hopefully). I will make a post announcing round 3 starting a day before.

I was considering changing up the way the rooms progress to the next round a bit, like a classic bracket tournament. But i've realised that its still for now imossible for me to do. My thoughts were to allow 5 top most voted rooms to the next round and the next (u know the drill), but we still hit a lot of same voting percentages, for it to progrss like this. I don't like how unpredictible it makes the number of rooms left for round 4, but i will have to work with it.

also i need to ask a question, cause i heard some plp not being too happy abt some iterator rooms sweeping and killing every rooms that are in their polls. there is an idea to pin some of the reacuring iterator room and ai rooms in their own polls so they can battle it out on their own and not take up the whole finale

The AI rooms this would cover: AI (Shoreline), AI (Five Pebbles), AI (The Rot), AI (Looks To The Moon), AI (Silent Construct), AI (Rubicon), AI (Frigid Coast)

Other Iterator room: ROOF03 (Shoreline), ROOF03 (Looks To The Moon), ROOF03 (Frigit Coast)

This is not to say in this round we will have region focused days/polls. no, most regions dont have nearly enough rooms for that. What im saying is that in the first 2 days we do each and one roof03 and any AI room that gets enough vote percentage moves on.

Now this is a poll were the voice of the plp matters, so if u rlly rlly want 3 roof03 in the finale be my guest

As for the slug hunters.

I think yall did a good job of finding slugs this round, cause there aren't any polls with unfound slugs. I counted the cookies today, so tommorow i will post tha podium.

Welp we all know that the only poll with a slug unfound is still, the mythical day 161. Good luck figuring that out this week. Remeber that room name is not enough in this poll due to the size of 2 rooms, so a lil discription of where the slug exacly is, is needed.

Im actually kinda worried now, that yall wont be able to find it. (its there dw i can see the slug so its there). Maybe yall want me to start posting criptic hints as to where, when round 3 or 4 starts? Idk. Whats slug hunters opinion on that, do tell. I can also understand if yall want to do it raw and even if the poll ends, you will remain stronk and find it eventually.

[uboat53]

Dude, baseball just incorporated the old Negro League records into their record books and we all really need to look up Josh Gibson.

With the Negro League records included, Gibson has the highest career batting average in history (Ty Cobb is second), the highest career slugging percentage (Babe Ruth is second), the third highest career on base percentage (behind Ted Williams and Babe Ruth), the highest career OPS (Babe Ruth is second), the highest single-season batting average (Hugh Duffy is third and Charlie Smith also of the Negro League is second), the highest and third-highest single-season slugging percentage (Barry Bonds is the only non-Negro League player in the top 5), the third-highest single-season on-base percentage (behind two seasons of Barry Bonds), and the highest and second-highest single-season OPS (Barry Bonds is third).

This guy is wild and I can imagine the white players of the era wetting themselves thinking about having to face him.

[rimeiii]

I love how I'm using Arknights formation principles even now when doing stages in WHB.

Like, see a stage with three 'parallel' spawn points and one protection objective?

Time to pull out my rock hell aka 1-7 trust farm setup, adapted for WHB!

(Shalem is there just for moral support, Executor to help with the large wave of slugs in the middle lane)

Also using this opportunity to talk about some QoL I'd like to see from WHB. First is at least an auto-setup feature if not a full-blown auto clear for stages you've Perfect-cleared. Would cut down grinding times immensely.

Second, I'd like it if they clearly outlined which tiles are undeployable immediately at the start. In WHB, you'd occasionally find tiles that are undeployable despite there being no in-game indicator that it's the case, unless you hover your unit atop said tile. Compare that with Arknights, where one glance at this map (H7-4) tells you the three rightmost columns are undeployable, and the black ranged tiles are also undeployable - nevermind the Originium Altar at the bottom.

Also I experienced a bug a while back where ults don't charge properly at times if you run an aura type unit in the stage, as in they sometimes just....stop charging up again after use? And by this I mean the Asmo demons, where their skills are buffing autocast spells...

Skill multipliers also feel a little bit too small for my taste, but that may be because of scaling issues. They're all percentage based, with small percentage buffs with each skill level - which means they're pretty insignificant at lower levels. I'd recommend saving your Tears to uncap your units first before raising skill levels.

Anyways, that's all my rambling for now. I just went all out for Halloween Fallen Robin and I'm debating on also going for the Halloween Duo Sothis purely because I like the Byleth design there...

[omg-snakes]

Do you think the clutch could have two fathers, retained sperm and meteorite? Thats where my mind went...

Hey friend!

That thought *definitely* crossed my mind, too! I ran the numbers on it to see if that was a reasonable hypothesis. After looking at the stats, though, I think it's pretty unlikely that Snikki retained any sperm from 2022. I'll show you how I came to that conclusion:

Last year's clutch from Snikki was with Chammers, and Snikki double-clutched that year. Her first clutch (SC22) was twelve eggs and the second clutch two months later (SC22B) was one good egg and five slugs. The sheer number of infertile slugs last year in SC22B gives me pause that any sperm could have been retained past that clutch.

Chammers is Anery het Amel, Hypo, and Lavender which is going to result in similar morphs to babies produced by Meteorite, who is Classic Tessera het Anery, Amel, and Hypo. The difference is that Meteorite would produce Tesseras (obvs) and a higher percentage of Classic color morphs than Chammers. Meteorite *can* produce a Ghost baby but the odds were only two in sixty-four and I only got twelve eggs, so statistically I should have seen less than one Ghost baby.

Chammers would be expected to produce about 50% Anery morph combos (Anery/Ghost/Snow), which he did, and Meteorite would be expected to produce only about 25% Anery morph combos, and SM23 actually came in a little lower.

While the morphs present in SM23 could suggest partial retained sperm from Chammers, especially for the statistically possible but improbable Ghost, there's still one thing that's making me think that these are all 100% Meteorite's babies.

Here's the Hypo and Ghost babies from SC22:

For comparison, here are a Hypo and Ghost from SM23:

Notice how much lighter the color is on the SM23 babies, how their pupils are ruby instead of black, and their irises are comparatively darker than the SC22 kiddos despite being lighter overall. All of the Hypos in SM23 are like this, and the Ghost following that same pattern tells me that they're all being subjected to the same Hypo gene expression.

Therefore, I'm pretty sure that SM23 are all full sniblings, and that would mean they're all Meteorite's.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

I’m a huge nerd with an odd fascination for both firearms and made-up firearms, and so the way guns work in Mass Effect has always confused and irritated me, doubly so whenever I see anyone else online talk about it as they are all almost always wrong in frustrating ways.

Not like me, I’m never like that.

The core conceit for guns in Mass Effect goes something like this:

Electromagnetic acceleration. That’s all you get told, but looking at just about every gun in the game you can assume they’re probably coilguns, but I doubt you’re meant to think about it too hard.

A mass effect field is used to lower the mass of the projectile, allowing it to be accelerated even faster than usual (personally I’d have said it allowed acceleration at lower energy levels, as coilguns and railguns and the like are notoriously thirsty systems, power-wise, but whatever).

Ammunition for the weapons comes in the form of an internal block of metal that, when the trigger is pulled, has a bit shaved off it and fired. These blocks can provide, it is said, thousands of rounds.

An internal computer is what decides how best to shave the block, apparently, and compensates for environmental conditions, it is said.

Now, that’s not awful on the face of it, I guess, but there are issues that rapidly pile up.

While it is never stated explicitly how big rounds are for any gun, it is mentioned in the codex entry that with sufficient kinetic energy even a sandgrain sized object would have devastating power. This is true. But that doesn’t say that what you’re firing is the size of a grain of sand, though it is often assumed that it is. The most it says is that the slugs are ‘tiny’.

What’s doing the heavy lifting in this mental picture here is the rationale that if you get something fast enough, it can do a lot of damage. This is true. But I feel in the rush to get to this certain important considerations might have been overlooked.

For one, I’m never clear on when the mass-reducing field stops being active on the projectile. Does it carry the whole way until it hits the target? What keeps the field active, is that how they work? I was never sure. More’s the point if it stays on all the way, what is keeping a massless grain of sand moving in anything close to a straight line? In space that might work but in atmosphere?

You ever heard of projectile salvo? Where the salient point here is that very light, very high velocity projectiles sometimes got deflected by rain?

And if the mass effect field doesn’t carry all the way to the target – which seems more likely to me – then you’re not getting the speeds some people are claiming you get, which makes firing a grain of sand at someone (or a ‘tiny slug’, whatever that is) kind of dumb, which makes the this whole ‘block of metal’ thing also kind of dumb. Some people are really, really insistent on the speed though.

I have seen at least one person claim that the weapons act as ‘miniature mass relays’ and fire their projectiles ‘close to the speed of light’ which is…wrong…on so many levels. For one thing the guns are not miniature mass relays because that would be ludicrous. I could get into why it’s ludicrous but suffice to say mass relays big, guns small. On the other side if you are standing there, a person, firing your rifle and what is coming out of that rifle is going anywhere near any fucking percentage of C, you are probably dead.

I’m not a fucking physicist or anything, I’m just – that’s common-sense, surely?

So no, not lightspeed, no, not anywhere near lightspeed, no. Extremely high velocity? Sure, totally. But not that high velocity. No-one’s talking cover behind a fucking crate if you’re shooting at them with something like that, yeah?

It’s also made pretty clear in the codex that recoil is a limiting factor for ultimate force put onto a target, albeit mitigated by the mass effect fields. Which tracks, as it explains why things like the Widow even exist in the first place, and are apparently so nasty to fire. If a basic Avenger is kicking out rounds at something of a few percent of C, then I’m not sure why you’d need a specific anti-Krogan rifle. The Krogan would be soup. So would anything behind them. And beneath and above them.

And you.

And what would be the point of a dedicated shotgun anyway? Couldn’t you tell your little gun computer in your Avenger to switch to shotgun mode and it’d shaved of a little handful of tiny grains and fire those? Why couldn’t it? Mean, wouldn’t be as good as a dedicated platform, I guess (none of which have stocks, as is noted – and why does everyone hold their submachineguns janky? And why do SMG’s even still exist? Gah!).

None of this matters, obviously. It’s all very video-gamey. Doubly so from the second game onwards where guns got more differentiated because that’s more fun and also reloading came back (heatsinks, ahem). It’s all basically a sci-fi-y excuse for why your guns aren’t lasers (sidebar: why aren’t there man-portable lasers?) and, along with many things in Mass Effect, the questionable scientific veracity of it all goes right out the window when an opportunity to be space opera presents itself.

And rightly so.

I suppose what annoys me is the people getting it wrong. Like, I’m not an expert, I’m an idiot. But people saying things like the above “They’re basically miniature mass relays”, a statement supported by exactly nothing and madness in the context of the game itself and physics in general, is grating. It’s like all those people who seem to assume that every space-based gun in the whole series starts at a base level of power as the main gun on a dreadnought.

No! They don’t! That’s why those ships are so powerful!

Fuckin’ Shepard is standing inside handshake distance of the Reaper on Rannoch when the fleet unloads and they aren’t burnt to a crisp – the guns aren’t that powerful!

Though I guess the Quarians might have been dialling it back on that one…

Point is! I’m right! And everyone else is wrong! And also annoying!

Fucking firing at nearly the speed of light, for fucks sake…

[lboogie1906]

Leon Joseph “Bip” Roberts (October 27, 1963) is a former MLB second baseman and outfielder who played (1986-98) for the San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics.

He was a speedy second baseman. Originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the Draft as a supplemental pick in 1982, after stealing a combined 90 bases in his two previous minor league seasons, he was taken by the San Diego Padres in the Rule 5 draft in December 1985.

In 1992, he was selected as a National League All-Star, going 2-for-2 with two RBI. Ηe was named the Cincinnati Reds team MVP, and was 8th in voting for the NL MVP, stealing 44 bases, and hitting .323. He tied an NL record in 1992 with ten consecutive base hits.

After the 1993 season, he re-signed with the Padres. In 1994, he recorded an MLB-best 24-game hitting streak for the Padres. He would play for the Indians in the postseason, although he missed a game in the World Series.

In 1202 games over 12 seasons, he posted a .294 batting average (1220-for-4147) with 663 runs, 203 doubles, 31 triples, 30 home runs, 352 RBI, 264 stolen bases, 396 bases on balls, .358 on-base percentage, and .380 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .976 fielding percentage. In 16 postseason games, he hit .246 (15-for-61) with 4 runs, 5 doubles, 5 RBI, 3 stolen bases and 5 walks.

He has worked for NBC Sports Bay Area as a co-host for the Oakland Athletics pre-game telecasts. In 2008, he took over as the head coach for the Skyline High School baseball team in Oakland. He was an assistant coach to the Academy of Art Urban Knights NCAA Division II PacWest baseball program (2010–12). He has donated his time to the Students Rising Above Foundation, which helps low-income, at-risk Bay Area kids overcome obstacles.

He was born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, attending Skyline High School And Chabot Community College. He is married to Janina Roberts and has one child. He is the nephew of former NFL player Roy Shivers. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[callsignbaphomet]

Slept for almost 12 hours lol

Yesterday we went to some historic hacienda down south and the tour was like an hour and a half.

Bitch, it was a plantation back in the day. Funny how people forget that we also had Europeans coming over and doing the same thing Americans did during the same time.

Humidity levels were over 90% so you can just imagine how much sweating we were all doing. Was nice though. Took lots of pics and got to pet a really cute donkey. Loved that the tour guide didn't try to cover the fact that the original owners of the place had slaves 'cause that's something that gets forgotten. Like, the look of shock on people's faces when she pointed to the receipts for children and list of slaves in the property was nuts. The entire Caribbean was full of that because of Spain, France and England. Duh. How the fuck do y'all think we have X percentage of African DNA in us today? Unfortunately it wasn't because a group of them decided to visit and stayed because of local weather and fruit and the funny tiny frog.

Anyway, the guide was great, she's also a biologist and is working with a group to save some endangered grass found in very few areas in the island and she documents local wildlife. Idk she seemed pretty cool. Took pics of whatever bug would stay still long enough too.

Here's two spiders and a slug I found on the trail.

Here's the donkey. She was so cute!

Some of the birds found in the area and just overall.

Supposedly bugs native to the island. I ain't that sure though.

As soon as I got back home I sat down for 10 minutes, ate two slices of pizza, took a shower and went to sleep around 8:10 and woke up around 7 something lol. I was so tired yesterday lol.

[bostonfly]

Some of its many dominant players included Satchel Paige, whom many subsequent greats deemed the best pitcher ever; power-hitter Josh Gibson, who was considered the “greatest slugger in Negro baseball leagues” and “Cool Papa” Bell, whom the hall of fame says “may well have been the fastest man to ever play the game.” As their statistics enter the MLB record, some of their names have risen to the top of the leaderboards. Gibson, who died of a stroke at age 35 in 1947, is now the MLB’s all-time career leader in batting average, slugging percentage and on-base plus slugging percentage. He also holds the all-time single-season records in all three categories. Gibson’s .372 batting average surpasses Ty Cobb’s .367, and his .718 slugging percentage overtakes Babe Ruth’s .690 — a fitting accomplishment for a man often called “the Black Babe Ruth.”