Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. The two statistics are related, in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.

Other contexts

Following from usage in cricket and baseball, batting average has come to be used for other statistical measures of performance.

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An example is the Internet Archive, which uses the term in ranking downloads. Its "batting average" indicates the correlation between views of a description page of a downloadable item, and the number of actual downloads of the item. This avoids the effect of popular downloads by volume swamping potentially more focused and useful downloads, producing an arguably more useful ranking.

Related Topics:
Internet Archive - Downloads - Correlation

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