Out of the Park Baseball 27's Advanced Stats Guide

The boys of summer are getting into full swing, and we are just over a month into the season. I have been checking out Out of the Park Baseball 27, and this year, they have added advanced sabermetric stats into the game. After playing the game for a bit, I thought it would be useful to create a simple guide that explains some of the stats. I will admit that I have learned a lot making this guide and probably will continue to learn. Is that not what life is all about? Please enjoy this simple guide that could help you understand some of the new statistics in this year’s edition of Out of the Park Baseball, now available on Steam or directly through their site.

All definitions are official definitions derived from using the Major League Baseball Glossary and Baseball Savant. All of these stat categories appear in the Advanced Stats tab of the player profile for their respective categories (hitter or pitcher).

BATTER AND PITCHER ADVANCED STATS (NEW)

1st Row

BIP – Balls in Play
GB/FB – Ground Balls to Fly Balls Ratio
LD% – Line Drive Rate
GB% – Ground Ball Rate
FB% – Fly Ball Rate
IFFB% – Infield Fly Ball Rate
HR/FB – Home Runs per Fly Ball rate
IFH% – Infield hit rate
BUH% – Bunt hit rate
Pull% – Rate the ball is pulled
Cent% – Rate ball is hit up the middle
Oppo% – Rate the ball is hit opposite field
Soft% – Rate ball is hit softly
Med% – Rate Ball is hit with average power
Hard% – Rate ball is hit hard (Exit Velocity equal or greater than 95 MPH)

2nd Row

AVG EV – Average Exit Velocity of hit balls
MAX EV – Highest exit velocity of hit balls
AVG LA – Average Launch Angle of hit balls
Barrels – How many balls are barreled. A barreled ball a ball must have an exit velocity of at least 98 mph and a launch angle between 26-30 degrees.
Barrel % – Percentage of hit balls in play that are barreled.
Hard Hit – Number of balls in play that are hit over 95 miles per hour
xBA – Expected Batting Average is the likelihood that a ball in play will fall in for a hit
xSLG – Expected Slugging Percentage is the expected rate at which the batter will slug the ball based weighted by each type of hit the player has tallies. The formula is (1B + 2Bx2 + 3Bx3 + HRx4)/AB)
wOBA (For some reason there is no tracking of this in OOTP 27 but including it for you stat nerds because it relates to the below stat) – Weighted On-Base Average is a look at what kind of hits (and walks) a player used to get on base rather than just if they did or not.
Determined via historical scoring data to get an average contribution to run production. This changes every season as new numbers are added to the data.

Home Run: Worth approximately 2.037 runs.
Triple: Worth approximately 1.252 runs.
Double: Worth approximately 1.252 runs.
Single: Worth approximately 0.882 runs.
Walk: Worth approximately 0.691 runs

Looking at those numbers, it can be stated that the average homerun is a 2-run homer.

xwOBA – Expected Weighted On-Base Average uses the same factors for each kind of hit.

Batter Only

HITTER STATS

BATTER STATS YOU MAY CONSIDER ADVANCED IN BATTING STATS TAB (OLD)

OPS+ – Adjusted On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage
WAR – Wins Above Replacement

To find these change the view of the Career Batting Stats or Batting Splits tabs of the Batting Stats of the player card.

wOBA – Weighted On-Base Average
ISO – Isolated Power
BABIP – Batting Average of Balls in Play
wRC+ – Adjusted Weighted Runs Created
WPA – Win Probability Added
UBR – Base Running Value
BsR – Total Baserunning Runs Value

Percentile Rankings (Batters)

Batted Balls

Batting RV – Batting Run Value – This is the odds that a run will score during his at bat. In this case Gunnar has a 23.5% chance of having a run score during his at bats. It also shows the percentile for this stat. (Gunnar Henderson in this simulated season was in the top 4% of batting run value)
Baserunning RV – Baserunning Run Value – This is the number of runs a player contributes when they are on base whether it is stealing bases or getting extra bases. In the case of Gunnar, when he was on base the Orioles were able to score 2.2 runs which puts him in the 90th percentile.
Fielding RV – Fielding Run Value – This number is the amount of runs a player’s defensive performance (all aspects of it including holding runners from stealing in Gunnar’s case.) contributes to the team. In this case, Gunnar, who is typically not great defensively, causes his team to actually lose 1.5 runs per his defensive action putting him in the low 38th percentile of fielders.
HR/FB – Home Runs per Fly Ball
Soft % – Percentage of balls in play that are hit under 95 MPH.
Solid % – Percentage of balls in play that are hit just under the definition of a barreled ball (See above for barreled ball definition)
Barrel% – Percentage of balls in play that are barreled. (See above for barreled ball definition)
Hard% – Percentage of balls in play that are hit over 95 MPH.
Avg EV – Average Exit Velocity
Max EV – Highest Exit Velocity achieved

Superstats

xBACON – Expected batting average on contacted balls
xSLGCON – Expected slugging percentage on contacted balls
xwOBACON – Expected Weighted On Base Percentage on contacted balls
xBA – See definition in Batter Advanced Stats (New) Section
xSLG – See definition in Batter Advanced Stats (New) Section
xwOBA – See definition in Batter Advanced Stats (New) Section
K% – Percentage of strikeouts in at bats
BB% Percentage of walks in at bats
SB% – Percentage of stolen base success

Pitch Value

Fastball RV – Run value on fastballs faced
Breaking RV – Run value on breaking balls faced
Offspeed RV – Run value on offspeed pitches faced
Whiff% – Rate at which batter swung and missed at pitches
O-Swing% – Rate at which batter swung at pitches outside the strike zone
Z-Swing% – Rate at which batter swung at pitches in the strike zone
Swing% – Rate at which batter swung at pitches thrown to him
O-Contact% – Rate at which batter made contact with pitches outside the strike zone
Z-Contact% – Rate at which batter made contact with pitches in the strike zone
Contact% – Rate at which batter made contact with pitches thrown to him

Batter Spray Chart

This shows where a batter has hit the ball. As you can see you can change what is shown. The legend contains:
GO (Groundout)
FO (Flyout)
SI (Single)
DO (Double)
TR (Triple)
HR (Home Run)

Pitcher Only

PITCHER STATS YOU MAY CONSIDER ADVANCED IN PITCHER STATS TAB (OLD)

BABIP – Batting Average of batters faced when they put the ball in play
ERA+ – Adjusted Earned Run Average – Earned Run Average that also takes into account ballpark factors. A full table of Ballpark Factors can be found here at Baseball Savant
WAR – (See definition above)

3rd Row in Advanced Stats

Pitches – Number of pitches thrown
O-Swing % – Percentage of pitches thrown outside the zone were swung at
Z-Swing % – Percentage of pitches thrown inside the zone were swung at
Swing% – Percentage of pitches thrown were swung at
OC% – Percentage of pitchers thrown outside the zone
ZC% – Percentage of pitches thrown inside the zone
Zone% – The ratio in percentage of balls thrown in the zone to balls thrown out of the zone
RV – Run Value
RV-FB – Run Value on Fastballs thrown
RV-BR – Run Value on Breaking Balls thrown
RV-OFF – Run Value on Off Speed Pitches thrown
Close% – Percentage of pitches thrown in a 2-strike count
Whiff% – Percentage of pitches thrown that resulted in a swing and miss
Chase% – Percentage of pitches thrown outside the zone that batters chased at

Percentile Rankings (Pitchers)

Batted Ball

GB% – Percentage of pitches hit that ended up as ground balls
GB/FB – Ground ball to Fly ball ratio on pitches hit
HR/FB – Homerun to Fly Ball ratio on pitches hit
Avg EV – Average exit velocity for balls hit
Soft % – Percentage of pitches thrown that were hit into play softly
Solid % – Percentage of pitches thrown that had solid contact made on them
Barrel % – Percentage of pitches thrown that were barreled
Hard % – Percentage of pitches thrown that were hit hard

Superstats

xERA
xBACON – Expected batting average on contacted balls
xSLGCON – Expected slugging percentage on contacted balls
xwOBACON – Expected Weighted On Base Percentage on contacted balls
xBA – See definition in Batter Advanced Stats (New) Section
xSLG – See definition in Batter Advanced Stats (New) Section
xwOBA – See definition in Batter Advanced Stats (New) Section
K/BB
K% – Percentage of strikeouts in at bats
BB% Percentage of walks in at bats

Pitch Result

See other definitions in Pitcher 3rd Row of Advanced Stats except for Contact %, which can be found in the Batter’s Pitch Value Section.

Pitch Type

Pitching RV – Pitching Run Value – Avg number of runs a pitcher prevented based on his pitching
Fastball RV – Fastball Run Value – Avg number of runs a pitcher prevents when throwing a fastball
Breaking RV – Breaking Run Value – Avg number of runs a pitcher prevents when throwing a breaking ball
Offspeed RV – Offspeed Run Value – Avg number of runs a pitcher prevents when throwing an offspeed pitch
All Fastball% – Percentage of any type of fastball thrown
Breaking% – Percentage breaking balls are thrown
All Offspeed% – Percentage of any type of offspeed pitch thrown
FB Velo – Average Fastball Velocity

Pitch Usage Chart

This shows the percentage of pitches the pitcher used.

If anything is missing from this guide that you feel should be added, please contact me on X at @darthpyrin.