Slugging for Triples

[molenick]

I used the Bill James power/speed number calculation on most of the people listed in this thread and some others. As a reminder, the calculation is (2*SB*HR)/(SB+HR). Apparently (as I just learned today) this is called the harmonic mean.

The idea is to reward players who did both things well (rather than just use an average which disproportionally rewards someone who did just one thing well). For example, Harmon Killebrew's power/speed number is 36.8 (based on 19 SBs and 573 HRs), which better reflects his combination of power and speed than the average of his SBs and HRs (which is 296). If both numbers are the same, then the psn is the same as the average (if you hit 100 HRs and stole 100 bases your psn is 100).

Anyway, I used that formula but substituted 3B for SB. These are the top players I did....I may have missed a worthy candidate, I just picked players that were mentioned in the thread plus some others I could think of (basically I looked at the leaders list for 3Bs and HRs). Anyone already mentioned in the thread not listed below ranks lower than these players.

Some interesting players that were not yet mentioned are Foxx, DiMaggio, and Brett.

Please note that there may be manual errors introduced from typing numbers into a spreadsheet.

Player 3B HR PSN
Musial 177 475 257.9
Gehrig 163 493 245.0
Mays 140 660 231.0
Ruth 136 714 228.5
Hornsby 169 301 216.5
Goslin 173 248 203.8
Foxx 125 534 202.6
Simmons 149 307 200.6
Clemente 166 240 196.3
J. DiMaggio 131 361 192.2
Brett 137 317 191.3
Bottomley 151 219 178.8
Aaron 98 755 173.5
Connor 233 138 173.3
Pinson 127 256 169.8
Cobb 295 117 167.5
Heilmann 151 183 165.5
Gehringer 146 184 162.8
Slaughter 148 169 157.8
Rollins 115 231 153.6
Speaker 222 117 153.2
Wheat 172 132 149.4
Granderson 95 344 148.9
S. Crawford 309 97 147.7
Rose 135 160 146.4
Medwick 113 205 145.7
Brock 141 149 144.9
Wagner 252 101 144.2
Stovey 176 122 144.1