Batting Average Calculator

Batting average is the single most quoted measure of a hitter's productivity at the plate, and this tool returns it for any baseball or softball player. Coaches and fans lean on the number to weigh one batter against another and to watch how a player's bat trends across a season, because it captures how reliably someone turns an opportunity into a hit.

The math behind it is simple: divide Total Hits by Total At-Bats. Convention reports the result as a three-place decimal, so a hitter reaching base by hit three times in ten at-bats lands at .300. Plate appearances that end in a walk, a sacrifice, or a hit-by-pitch don't go into the at-bat column, so they never enter the calculation.

Watch the line between an at-bat and a plate appearance, since only official at-bats belong in this formula and mixing the two will skew the result. A mark of .300 has long been treated as the threshold of an elite season, and the higher the figure climbs, the more dangerous the hitter. Keep your output rounded to three decimal places to match how the statistic is reported everywhere from box scores to record books.