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FanGraphs Library Stat Glossary

by Piper Slowinski
December 18, 2012

To find a particular statistic, use Ctr-F and type in the abbreviation or stat name that you are looking for.

Offense:

OBP – On-Base Percentage
OPS – On-base Plus Slugging
OPS+ – On-base Plus Slugging Plus
wOBA – Weighted On-Base Average
wRAA – Weighted Runs Above Average
UBR – Ultimate Base Running
wRC – Weighted Runs Created
wRC+ – Weighted Runs Created Plus
BABIP – Batting Average on Ball In Play
ISO – Isolated Power
HR/FB – Home Runs per Fly Ball rate
Spd – Speed Score
GB% – Ground ball percentage
FB% – Fly ball percentage
LD% – Line drive percentate
K% – Stikeout rate
BB% – Walk rate
O-Swing% – Outside-the-zone swing rate
Z-Swing% – Inside-the-zone swing rate
Swing% – Swing rate
O-Contact% – Outside-the-zone contact percentage
Z-Contact% – Inside-the-zone contact percentage
Contact% – Contact percentage
Zone% – Percentage of pitches within the zone
F-Strike% – First-pitch strike percentage
SwStr% – Swinging Stike percentage
wFB – Fastball runs above average
wSL – Slider runs above average
wCT – Cutter runs above average
wCB – Curveball runs above average
wCH – Change-up runs above average
wSF – Split-finger fastball runs above average
wKN – Knuckleball runs above average
wFB/C – Fastball runs above average per 100 pitches
wSL/C– Slider runs above average per 100 pitches
wCT/C – Cutter runs above average per 100 pitches
wCB/C – Curveball runs above average per 100 pitches
wCH/C – Change-up runs above average per 100 pitches
wSF/C – Slit-fingered fastball runs above average per 100 pitches
wKN/C – Knuckleball runs above average per 100 pitches

Defense:

rSB – Stolen Base Runs Saved runs above average
rGDP – Double Play Runs Saved runs above average
rARM – Outfield Arms Runs Saved runs above average
rGFP – Good Fielding Plays Runs Saved runs above average
rPM – Plus/Minus Runs Saved runs above average
DRS – Defensive Runs Saved runs above average
BIZ – Balls In Zone
OOZ – Balls Out Of Zone
RZR – Revised Zone Rating
CPP – Expected Catcher Passed Pitches
RPP – Catcher Blocked Pitches in runs above average
TZ – Total Zone
TZL – Total Zone with Location data
FSR – Fan Scouting Report
ARM – Outfield Arm runs above average
DPR – Double Play runs above average
RngR – Range runs above average
ErrR – Error runs above average
UZR – Ultimate Zone Rating
UZR/150 – Ultimate Zone Rating per 150 defensive games

Pitching:

ERA – Earned Run Average
WHIP – Walks and Hits per Innings Pitched
FIP – Fielding Independent Pitching
xFIP – Expected Fielding Independent Pitching
SIERA – Skill-Interactive ERA
tERA – True Runs Allowed
K/9 – Strikeout rate
BB/9 – Walk rate
K% – Strikeout percentage
BB% – Walk percentage
K/BB – Strikeout-to-Walk ratio
LD% – Line drive rate
GB% – Ground ball rate
FB% – Fly ball rate
HR/FB – Home runs per fly ball rate
BABIP – Batting Average on Balls In Play
LOB% – Left On Base percentage
ERA- – ERA Minus
FIP- FIP Minus
xFIP- – xFIP Minus
SD – Shutdowns
MD – Meltdowns
O-Swing% – Outside-the-zone swing rate
Z-Swing% – Inside-the-zone swing rate
Swing% – Swing rate
O-Contact% – Outside-the-zone contact percentage
Z-Contact% – Inside-the-zone contact percentage
Contact% – Contact percentage
Zone% – Percentage of pitches within the zone
F-Strike% – First-pitch strike percentage
SwStr% – Swinging Stike percentage
wFB – Fastball runs above average
wSL – Slider runs above average
wCT – Cutter runs above average
wCB – Curveball runs above average
wCH – Change-up runs above average
wSF – Split-finger fastball runs above average
wKN – Knuckleball runs above average
wFB/C – Fastball runs above average per 100 pitches
wSL/C– Slider runs above average per 100 pitches
wCT/C – Cutter runs above average per 100 pitches
wCB/C – Curveball runs above average per 100 pitches
wCH/C – Change-up runs above average per 100 pitches
wSF/C – Slit-fingered fastball runs above average per 100 pitches
wKN/C – Knuckleball runs above average per 100 pitches

Win Probability:

WPA – Win Probability Added
-WPA – Loss Advancement
+WPA – Win Advancement
RE24 – Run Above Average based on the 24 Base/Out States
REW – Wins Above Average based on the 24 Base/Out States
pLI – A player’s average LI for all game events
phLI – A batter’s average LI in only pinch hit events
PH – Pinch Hit Opportunities
gmLI – A pitcher’s average LI when he enters the game
inLI – A pitcher’s average LI at the start of each inning
exLI – A pitcher’s average LI when exiting the game
WPA/LI – Situational Wins
Clutch – How much better or worse a player does in high leverage situations than he would have done in a context neutral environment

WAR

Offensive

Batting – Park Adjusted Runs Above Average based on wOBA
Base Running –  Base running runs above average, includes SB or CS
Fielding – Fielding Runs Above Average based on UZR (TZ before 2002)
Replacement – Replacement Runs set at 20 runs per 600 plate apperances
Positional – Positional Adjustment set at +12.5 for C, +7.5 for SS, +2.5 for 2B/3B/CF, -7.5 for RF/LF, -12.5 for 1B, -17.5 for DH
Fld + Pos
RAR – Runs Above Replacement (Batting + Fielding + Base Running + Replacement + Positional)
WAR – Wins Above Replacement

Pitching

RA9-Wins – Wins Above Replacement calculated using Runs Allowed
BIP-Wins – BABIP wins above average
LOB-Wins – Sequencing in wins above average (calculated as the difference between RA9-Wins and WAR minus BIP-Wins)
FDP-Wins – BABIP and Sequencing wins above average, also the difference between RA9-Wins and WAR
RAR – Runs Above Replacement
WAR – Wins Above Replacement





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Piper was the editor-in-chief of DRaysBay and the keeper of the FanGraphs Library.

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tpdumee
9 years ago

Is there quality starts available?

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Chuck Hildebrandtmember
9 years ago

I think it’s time to update this stat glossary page because it appears there are a lot of new stats showing up in the charts.

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Andy
9 years ago

This glossary needs a few additions it seems. If the fangraphs staff could, it’d be great to see an quick update. For one example, when looking at Pitcher > Game Logs, LI is defined, but RE and WE are not. RE can kind of be inferred from the RE24 definition, but there are so many abstract metrics on this site (which I LOVE, btw), it can be confusing. One idea that’s pretty easy to code — when you hover your pointer over a metric, there’s typically a link to sort by that stat. You could include the name that the acronym or abbreviation represents as a ‘title,’ with the link to sort underneath. For example, hovering over LI would say:

Leverage Index
click here to sort

Just a thought, and pretty easy to implement. Plus you wouldn’t have to link to a definition, because just the name would be enough for someone to copy > paste into google and find the definition elsewhere.

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Sean
8 years ago

what is rs/9 and e-f for pitchers?

Also, support the addition for QS, as rudimentary as it is. What I’ve done for this is develop an IF function (if IP =>6 and ER <= 3) from what i export from fangraphs to help me calculate it.

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Chris K
8 years ago

You’ve got a couple unfortunate typos, where “split-fingered” is written “slit-fingered”.

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Steve
8 years ago

What is BsR?

It’s listed in the Dashboard but doesn’t appear in the Glossary.

Also, Off and Def?

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