Howdy friends,

LASR (League-Adjusted Standardized Rating) is a project of mine that's inspired by the 20-80 scouting scale, where 50 is average and 10 points in either direction is equal to 1 standard deviation. Check my profile for more info if you're interested.

I've mostly shared LASR grades with little graphics I've created, but recently I started playing around with my data in Datawrapper. I've still got a lot to learn there, but I'm really enjoying the tool!

The image I'm sharing here summarizes the top harmonic means for hitters and their HR%, BB%, and -K% LASR grades (note that K% is *negated*, so having a high value there is a good thing). A [harmonic mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_mean) is the reciprocal of the means of the reciprocals... it essentially gives an "average" measurement that takes into account the balance between the categories. The harmonic mean is most relevant to baseball & sabermetric fans through [Bill James's Power-Speed number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%E2%80%93speed_number) which uses the same concept.

Basically, I'm trying to show in this chart the players whose home run, walk, and strikeout avoidance skills are all exemplary and close to each other. It's also just interesting to me to see all three skills on the same scale, taking the spread of the data into account, for all players to see their relative strengths and weaknesses. I know it's not as interesting to others and you'd rather just see the raw values... there are plenty of sites for that 😜

Again, I'm just getting started with Datawrapper (and always fine-tuning LASR) and am open to feedback. I know I will likely get feedback, for example, on the values being rounded to the nearest 1 instead of 5 -- I'm still kinda trying out both versions and seeing which I like better. Nothing is set in stone in the LASR project.

If you're interested in checking out the entire list, [here's a link](https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/k9eW3/1/). It's sortable and everything.

TL;DR: baseball stats, bro ✌️

Harmonic mean of HR%, BB%, and -K% LASR values (Hitters)