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Subject: Baseball
Category: Sports and Recreation > Trivia
Asked by: justdave_at_comcast-ga
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Posted: 31 Jul 2002 03:29 PDT
Expires: 30 Aug 2002 03:29 PDT
Question ID: 47344
In the history of Major League Baseball, what is the average score of
a game. i.e: the average number of runs scored by the winning team
and the average number of runs scored by the losing team?
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Subject: Re: Baseball
From: peeping-ga on 05 Aug 2002 02:39 PDT
 
According to The Baseball Archive at http://baseball1.com, through
2001 season, there has been 175665 major league games played. 
1,606,056 total runs were scored during those games.

Unfortunately, there is no breakdown as to what the total scores were
for winning/losing cause.
Subject: Re: Baseball
From: peeping-ga on 05 Aug 2002 22:51 PDT
 
That translates into about 9.14 runs per game.  So the closest guess
would be that the winning teams score >5.07 runs per game and losing
teams score <4.07 runs per game on average.
Subject: Re: Baseball
From: justdave_at_comcast-ga on 07 Aug 2002 03:13 PDT
 
peeping-ga,

thanks for the research that you have done in an attempt to arrive at
an answer to my question. However, I believe it is quite a leap to
assume that the average baseball game results in a one run victory.
One run is certainly the minimum, and the maximum is theoretically
infinite. With that in mind, I can't see how the average could be 1.

justdave_at_comcast-ga
Subject: Re: Baseball
From: peeping-ga on 07 Aug 2002 15:10 PDT
 
Like I said, it's the closest guess.  Mind you, there have been tie
games in major league baseball.. not enough to make much difference in
the assertion that the run differential must be greater than or equal
to 1.

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