A Major League Baseball player's performance swinging the bat plays a major role in determining their value in helping their team win ball games. A player can play perfect defense, but if he can not contribute on the offensive side of the field he is not nearly as valuable as another player that swings the bat well. In baseball that value is often determined by a player's batting average. Even if a player knocks 50 homeruns a season, if his batting average is say.150 then he is still considered a weak component to the team's batting lineup. The way batting averages are calculated is rather simple. Simply take a player's number of hits and divide that by his number of at-bats. ™ For example, if Derek Jeter bats 5 times and gets two hits in a single night then his batting average would look like this: 2 (hits)/ 5 (at-bats) =.400. Therefore, Jeter batted.400 on the night. Something to keep in mind when determining a player's average is exactly what is determined as an "at-bat." If a player gets a walk or base on balls it does not count towards a player's batting average because it is not considered an at-bat. Sacrifices also do not count towards an at-bat as well because the hitter is giving up his chance at the plate to move a runner into better scoring position. Therefore, neither walks nor sacrifices count as an at-bat. Strikeouts do count as a at-bat and of course cause a hitter's batting average to drop because they are not considered a "hit." The only other aspect to mention when calculating batting averages is determining what qualifies as a hit. A hit is a single, double, triple, or home run. A strikeout along with any ground or fly out is of course not considered a hit as well. Defensive errors also do not count as a hit, but do count as an at-bat because it is judged that the runner would not have got on base if not for the defensive error. So to make sure we are all understanding, lets say for example that Derek Jeter comes to the plate 5 times, then gets 2 walks, 2 hits, and on base through a defensive error. Then the 2 walks are not considered as at-bats. Therefore, Jeter's averaged on the night would look like this: 2 hits/ 3 at-bats equal a.666 batting average on the night. However, batting averages are usually referred to on a seasonal basis so those numbers would be the number of hits divided by the number of at-bats for an entire season. While home runs and runs batted in (RBI's) are always appealing on the stat sheet, the batting average is usually the true measuring stick for any hitter and something to carefully consider when betting on baseball. On a seasonal average, anything above the .300 mark is considered exceptional on the MLB level and no player has ever finished with an average of .400 or greater since Ted Williams back in 1941. If you have bet on sports for any period of time, you know that losing streaks are part of the overall picture. It doesn't matter who you are or how good of a handicapper you are, losing streaks are going to occur. It also makes no difference how you handicap. Bettors who rely on statistics, trends, or systems are not exempt from the inevitable slump, which makes following some of the baseball chase systems a dangerous task. A chase system closely resembles the old Martingale betting strategy of simply doubling up after a loss, with the expectation of recovering any previous losses and showing a profit when you do win. If you were guaranteed a winning bet within three plays, the chase system would work fine, but there are no sure things in sports betting. Just as streaks are part of baseball betting, they are also part of baseball and it isn't unusual to see teams win or lose six, seven or even eight games in a row. When somebody is promoting a baseball chase system, you will be drawn to an impressive record, but the records that are given aren't the actual win-loss record of the games bet, but instead is the record of the chase sequence. As an example, if a chase system says to bet the New York Mets, the Mets could lose their next six games. If they win the seventh game, a bettor following the sequence would show a record of 1-6 in the seven games they bet. But the system would be credited with a record of 1-0 on the premise that the sequence was successful. If that isn't bad enough, nearly every chase system will have you playing the favorite on the moneyline or taking the runline if the team is an underdog. Either way, you are going to be risking much more money than you stand to win. If you take an underdog of +120 on the runline, you can expect to risk close to -175 to get the 1.5 runs. Using -160 for either a moneyline favorite or a runline underdog, assume a bettor wants to show a chase sequence profit of $100. The first bet will obviously be $160 to win $100. If the bettor wins the first bet, they will start a new sequence. It's when the bettor loses the first bet that things begin to get a bit complicated. With the loss, the bettor is now down $160 and needs to win $260 on their next bet in order to recover the money lost and still show their desired $100 profit. To win $260 on a wager that is -160, you will have to bet $416. If the second bet wins, the bettor can close out the sequence with a $100 profit, but if the second game loses, the bettor is now down $576 and will need to win $676 to show a profit for the sequence. That leads to a third bet of $1,082 and if the third bet happens to lose, the bettor is down $1,658 and will have to wager $2,813 to show a $100 sequence profit on the fourth bet. If it goes to a fifth bet, the amount required to bet would be $4,471, which could very well exceed a bettor's betting limit or most likely, a bettor's bankroll. A win in the fifth game would be good for a $100 sequence profit, but a loss will yield a sequence loss of $7,284. Losing five bets in a row isn't all that unusual. It does happen. But when it happens with a chase system it can get awfully expensive in a hurry and will knock all the best-funded sports bettors out of the picture. Consider these numbers before you invest in a handicapper who claims to 샌즈카지노 have a 44-1 record or have gone 22-0 last season. Losses happen, it's a reality of the game.
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