Some NPB v MLB offense comparisons

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).