The Correlation Between Offensive Ability and The Result of The Competition of Women’s Baseball-A Case Study of 2012 5th Women’s Baseball World Cup

• Main Authors: Tseng Yu-Ying, 曾于瑛
• Other Authors: Lin, Hua-Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3wbt28

碩士 === 國立臺灣體育運動大學 === 競技運動學系碩士班 === 103 === Women’s baseball is flourishing growing by great developments from the International baseball federation. The participating countries have also gradually improved their capability, with the exception of team Chinese Taipei couldn’t be better in recent years. The main tactic of baseball nowadays emphasizes on batting, thus the batting average for the match result had a significant influence. For making a breakthrough in our capability, the purpose of this study was to discuss the correlation between offensive ability (including batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and batting average with runners in scoring position) and the result of the matches. The scorecard and IBAF’s data of 28 preliminary games with 8 countries of Fifth Women’s baseball world cup in 2012 was adopted in the research. The statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS statistics software to do descriptive statistics analysis compared with the correlation between the offensive ability and the result of the matches of Pearson correlation coefficient. The result as below: 1.The batting average and the match result had significant statistic relativity. The higher batting average the higher winning rate, the lower batting average the lower winning rate. 2.The on-base percentage and the match result had significant statistic relativity. Promoting the on-base percentage contributed to the offensive and scoring continuity, resulted in an increased winning rate. 3.The slugging percentage and the match result had significant statistic relativity. Having an extra-base hit at a proper timing could increase the winning rate. 4.Batting average with runners in scoring position and the match result had significant statistic relativity. The higher the batting average with runners in scoring position, the higher winning rate.