Just did some comparisons of NPB and MLB offenses for 2005-07. Just scratching the surface here, so nothing deep yet.
R/G |
Year・年 |
CL・セ |
PL・パ |
NPB |
AL・ア |
NL・ナ |
MLB |
平均試合 |
2005 |
4.40 |
4.46 |
4.43 |
4.76 |
4.45 |
4.59 |
得点 |
2006 |
4.12 |
3.92 |
4.03 |
4.96 |
4.76 |
4.86 |
|
2007 |
4.11 |
3.94 |
4.03 |
4.90 |
4.71 |
4.80 |
OPS |
Year・年 |
CL・セ |
PL・パ |
NPB |
AL・ア |
NL・ナ |
MLB |
|
2005 |
0.739 |
0.739 |
0.739 |
0.754 |
0.744 |
0.749 |
|
2006 |
0.712 |
0.705 |
0.709 |
0.776 |
0.761 |
0.768 |
|
2007 |
0.724 |
0.701 |
0.713 |
0.760 |
0.756 |
0.758 |
Although Japanese baseball is known for its small ball from top to bottom (even though WBC was won with timely big bats), in 2005 NPB and MLB offenses exhibited very similar R/G and OPS numbers, then they diverged rather extremely after that (I don’t have NPB data for years before 2005, and wasn’t going to go beyond 3 years for analysis anyways, but it looks like a future project).