IBL 2007 stolen base leaders

As long as we've been discussing stolen bases, let's glance at the 2007 leaders.

A total of 457 bases were stolen in the entire season. Of them, 314 were taken by the 20 leaders in this chart:



Now let's look at them again, this time emphasizing pure base stealing ability. The next chart is sorted in order of stolen bases per times on base; that is, SB / (H + BB + HBP - HR). It indicates how often a player stole a base given the number of opportunities he had to do so. (The cutoff point for the chart was 80 plate appearances.)



Mike Lyons of Bet Shemesh not only led the league with 32 steals, leaving Netanya's Josh Doane in the dust with 25, but he was in a class of his own in terms of basestealing frequency, stealing on average over 71% of his times on base. That's 46% more often than #2 John Toussas of Raanana, and over four times as high as the IBL league average of 16.5% (compare that with about 5% in the major leagues!). And Lyons was caught just 4 times, in 11% of his attempts.

I don't have any earthshattering conclusions here. Just the stats, ma'am.

Home run leaders, broken down by field

As requested in the comments, here are the IBL's leading home run hitters, with their home runs and at bats broken down by ballpark. I've included everyone with at least five home runs for the season.





I don't have much to say about this. The dominance of Gezer, and of Gezer-based hitters, in the standings is plain to see. Just four of the fourteen home run leaders (Ramirez, Crotin, Doane, Field) were from teams other than Bet Shemesh and Modiin.

As a rough estimate of the Gezer effect, imagine cutting all the Gezer home run bars in half on the first chart. The same players still lead the list, but they're not nearly as dominant.