Warning! Dumb Question!

[abrunn11]

Someone please explain to me why they show pitcher's innings as decimals when that is incorrect? If a pitcher throws 7 1/3 innings, it shows it as 7.1 innings, when in fact in is 7.333 (repeating of course) innings.

[jamastaballa]

I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking it's to keep track of how many outs they've recorded.

[Simulacrum]

It is a little strange, but that's how it works. 7.1 innings is 7 innings and 1 out (or 19 outs total). 7.2 is with two outs. 7.3 doesn't exist because then it becomes 8.0.

[great gretzky]

I don't think it was ever intended to represent a real fraction in the sense that it is a division problem.

[Inukchuk]

This is the nerdiest thread ever...

[mkultra]

This is the nerdiest thread ever...

No, heated discussions over minute differences in obscure stats isn't nerdy at all

[Matthias]

I'm going to say because some baseball players don't know how to do fractions and decimals. Heck, some fans, don't.

[Tavish]

It is shorthand for newspaper box scores that can't print fractions clearly in the smaller font. It's been used for so long now it is just the de facto standard.

[great gretzky]

It is shorthand for newspaper box scores that can't print fractions clearly in the smaller font. It's been used for so long now it is just the de facto standard.

learn something new everyday.

But what do they do for stock quotes? Why wouldn't they just use the decimal? Surely the same problem came with the financial pages.

[redjake]

If you're trying to convert the 7.1 to 22 outs this works:

=((INT(A1)*3)+(((A1-(INT(A1)))*10)))

You can then do an =(ER/OUTS)*27 to get ERA and an =((BB+H)/OUTS)*3 to get WHIP.


I think.

Edit - The 7.1 will need to be in cell A1, of course...