Sublime

What football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what

OBP involves all of a batter’s relevant plate appearances and outcomes. It excludes the sacrifice bunt and catcher’s interference;