For those of you not familar with baseball, here is a description of the fields in the data file: PLAYER - This is the name of the batter whose statistics are on the line. AVG - This is the "batting average", computed as "hits/atbats". It is a measure of how consistant the batter is. OBA - This is the "on base average", computed as "(hits+BB)/(atbats+BB)". SLUG - This is the "slugging percentage", computed as "totalbases/atbats". It is a measure of how powerful a batter is. G - This the number of "games played" the batter participated in. AB - This is the number of "at bats", the number of times the batter either made our or got a hit. It is typically about 3 times the number of games played. R - This the number of "runs scored" by the player. A very good player will score 100 runs in a year. H - This is the number of "hits" by the player. A very good player will get 200 hits in a year. TB - This the number of "total bases". It is the number of hits + the number of 2B + 2 * the number of 3Bs + 3 * the number of home runs. It is a measure of power -- the total number of bases achieved on all the hits. 2B - This is the number of "doubles", the number of hits where the batter ended up on second base. 3B - This the number of "triples", the number of hits where the batter ended up on third base. HR - This is the number of "home runs". A very good player will get 40 home runs in a year. RBI - This is the number of "runs batted in". It is a measure of how important the hits a batter's hits were. A very good player will get 100 RBIs a year. BB - This is the number of "base on balls", or "walks". It is the number of times the batter got neither a hit (good) or an out (bad), but got a walk (so-so). SO - This the number of times the batter "struck out". A batter who strikes out 120 times or more is not so good. SB - This is the number of "stolen bases". A very good player might steal 40 bases. CS - This is the number of "caught stealing bases". It is very bad if this number is close to the number of SB. SH - This is the number of "sacrifice hits." It is probably not very important. SF - This is the number of "sacrifice flies". It is probably not very important. HP - This is the number of "hit by pitches", It is a measure of how brave and stupid the player is. It is probably not very important.