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Batting Average Calculator

The stat that defines a hitter.

Hits

At-Bats

Batting Average

.325

What you entered

Hits: 65At-Bats: 200

1
Batting average = hits / at-bats
65 / 200= 0.325
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Formatted batting average
0.325 rounded to 3 decimal places= .325

Result

Batting Average: .325

Batting average from hits and at-bats

Hits divided by at-bats, written to three decimal places and read as a whole number: .300 is said as 'three hundred'.

Hits	At-bats	Average	How it reads
20	100	.200	The Mendoza line
25	100	.250	Below average
30	120	.250	Below average
56	200	.280	About league average
45	150	.300	Very good season
162	500	.324	Batting title contention

Walks are not at-bats, so they do not lower a batting average. That is why on-base percentage is the better measure of a hitter who draws a lot of walks. Anything at or above .300 over a full season is excellent.

Hits divided by at-bats

Batting average is simply hits ÷ at-bats, displayed as a three-decimal number — a .300 average (getting a hit 30% of the time) has historically been the benchmark for an excellent hitter in Major League Baseball.

What counts as an at-bat

Not every plate appearance is an at-bat — walks, hit-by-pitches, sacrifices, and catcher interference don't count, which is why batting average and on-base percentage can tell very different stories about the same player.

Frequently asked questions

A player has 45 hits in 150 at-bats — is that good?

That's a .300 batting average (45 ÷ 150), which is excellent. In modern MLB, .300+ puts a hitter in roughly the top 10-15% of all qualified batters.

How is batting average different from on-base percentage?

Batting average only counts hits divided by at-bats, while OBP also credits walks, hit-by-pitches, and uses plate appearances (a broader denominator including sac flies). A player who walks a lot can have a .250 average but a .370 OBP.

Why is .400 so hard to reach?

No MLB player has hit .400 over a full season since Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941. Modern pitching specialization (relievers, closers), defensive shifts, and the sheer volume of at-bats over 162 games make sustaining that rate nearly impossible.