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Batting average on balls in play
In baseball statistics, Batting average on balls in play (abbreviated BABIP) is a statistic measuring the percentage of balls that are not home runs, strikeouts, or bases on balls that the batter is credited with a hit on BABIP is commonly used in sabermetric] analysis, as a consistently high or low BABIP is hard to maintain. Therefore, BABIP can be used to spot fluky seasons by baseball players, as those whose BABIPs are extremely high can often be expected to regress in the following season, and those players whose BABIPs are extremely low can often be expected to improve in the following season.
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