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Sacrifice Fly Rules

Many of you already know that the sacrifice rule has changed many times in the history of professional baseball. Here are the changes that have occurred during the 20th century:

  • From 1900 to 1907, sacrifice flies were not counted

  • From 1908 to 1925, a batter who hit a fly ball that scored a runner from third was credited with a sacrifice, but these sacrifices were grouped together with sacrifice bunts in one category called sacrifice hits (SH)

  • From 1926 to 1930, batters were awarded a sacrifice if any runner advanced on a fly ball, and sacrifice bunts and flies continued to be grouped together in the SH category

  • From 1931 to 1938, sacrifices were no longer awarded on any fly balls

  • In 1939, sacrifices were once again credited on fly balls that scored a runner, but they were still combined with bunts

  • From 1940 to 1953, sacrifice flies were once again eliminated

  • From 1954 to the present, batters were once again awarded sacrifices on scoring fly balls, and a new category (sacrifice flies, or SF) was created to keep them separate from sacrifice bunts

Starting with version 7, Diamond Mind Baseball enables you to choose the sacrifice fly rule for a league. The conversion program automatically assigns a sacrifice fly rule based on the year of the Era the league is currently assigned to.

To double-check that the correct rule was assigned by the conversion, or to change the rule for a league, use the Organizer to view the league rules and select from one of the following values:

  None--for no sacrifice flies

  3rd only, as SH--to credit a SH on a scoring fly ball

  3rd only, as SF--to credit a SF on a scoring fly ball

  Any base, as SH--to credit a SH on any fly ball that advances a runner

It should be clear that the generous rule in the 1926-30 period inflated batting averages by quite a few points relative to eras when sacrifices were awarded only on scoring fly balls or not at all. Older versions of DMB always used the modern rule, and that made it more difficult to compare your Diamond Mind results with real life. With the ability to choose the appropriate sacrifice fly rule for your league, that becomes much easier.

 

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