Total Base Advancement Efficiency Baseball Statistic

- By Matthew Orso

TBAE (or known as Total Base Advancement Efficiency) is a new statistic that I invented. It shows how often base runners will advance bases. It incorporates stolen bases, doubles and triples (the statistics that involve base advancement) and divides them by the players' total bases. For example here is a list of some of the 26 greatest players of all time and their TBAE.

Name	SB	2B	3B	TOTAL BASES	TBAE
B. Ruth	123	506	136	5793	0.132
T. Williams	24	525	71	4884	0.127
T. Cobb	897	724	295	5854	0.327
W. Mays	338	523	140	6066	0.165
R. Hornsby	135	541	169	4712	0.179
L. Gehrig	102	534	163	5060	0.158
H. Aaron	240	624	98	6856	0.14
R. Henderson	1406	510	66	4588	0.432
T. Speaker	436	792	222	5101	0.284
J. Foxx	87	458	125	4956	0.135
H. Wagner	723	643	252	4870	0.332
M. Mantle	153	344	72	4511	0.126
E. Collins	741	438	187	4268	0.32
A. Pujols	83	453	15	3886	0.142
F. Robinson	204	528	72	5373	0.15
C. Gehringer	181	574	146	4257	0.212
R. Clemente	83	440	166	4492	0.153
K. Griffey Jr.	184	524	38	5271	0.142
N. Lajoie	380	657	163	4471	0.268
G. Brett	201	665	137	5044	0.199
A. Rodriguez	305	495	29	5213	0.159
M. Schmidt	174	408	59	4404	0.146
M. Ott	89	488	72	5041	0.129
P. Rose	198	746	135	5752	0.188
J. DiMaggio	30	389	131	3948	0.139
C. Ripken Jr.	36	603	44	5168	0.132
A. Kaline	137	498	75	4852	0.146

You add the stolen bases, doubles and triples together. Then you divide by the total bases to get the TBAE. It puts emphases on the base runners decision making and advancement skills.

For example Babe Ruth has a TBAE of .132. So he advanced a base 13.2 % of the time.

This statistic was developed by Matthew Orso of NJ Baseball Magazine.

Author of the upcoming book Baseball: Plain and Simple.

What Other Visitors Have Said:

What Question Does This Stat Answer? - By Jay (Dallas)

So the stat shows base advancement, when can this be used in a real world setting? What question does it answer? @poormansPOV

Eliminate total Bases From Homeruns - By David Sussman (CA)

This is good but I would eliminate home run total bases from denominator. I think this would make it so you do not penalize the athletic power hitter.

Thanks, davidsussman@sbcglobal.net

Good Point, But - By Matthew

That is a good point, but the main objective of the stat is to promote base advancement. The best players will shine in this if they have the amount of doubles, triples and stolen bases. In this case you do want to penalize the power hitters to see if they are all around great hitters and contribute to the runs.