15. Home Run rates: Mantle, Mays, Aaron.

Matrix below for years when they played:
Mickey Mantle 1951-1968
Willie Mays 1951, 1952 very little, 1953 in Army, 1954-1973
Hank Aaron 1954-1976

AB: At Bats
HR: Home Runs
MLB: Major League Baseball: both American League and National League
Home Run Rate: AB/HR (lower is better)
N: number of MLB teams that season
Top home run hitters: N hitters with the most HR, plus any ties at the bottom
Home Run Rate MLB: for N hitters: total AB / total HR
Home Run Rate hitters: AB/HR
Dif: Home Run Rate hitter - Home Run Rate MLB
PctDif: Dif/Home Run Rate MLB
HR#: rank among N hitters for HR
PctDif#: rank among N hitters for PctDif

Hitters are ranked by relative position: 1, 2, 3, ... Ties would have the same number and then rank number would resume. For example, if four players are tied at third place: 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 7, 8, ...

Represented in the matrix only if home runs that season were among the top N. Name# is his PctDif#. Mantle and Mays were #1 in PctDif in the two seasons that each hit at least 50 home runs. Aaron was #1 three consecutive years at ages 37, 38, 39. Mantle was 36 in his last season.

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qryPctDifMantleMaysAaron

yearID	HRmax	PctDifmax	MantleHR	Mantle	Mantle#	MaysHR	Mays	Mays#	AaronHR	Aaron	Aaron#
1951	42	29.67%
1952	37	28.55%	23	-22.29%	14
1953	47	23.74%
1954	49	27.50%	27	-24.69%	13	41	14.56%	5
1955	51	27.12%	37	10.45%	9	51	27.12%	1	27	-42.89%	17
1956	52	33.22%	52	33.22%	1	36	-4.61%	10
1957	44	29.57%	34	11.16%	5	35	-6.51%	10	44	10.93%	6
1958	47	27.41%	42	24.79%	2	29	-25.92%	15	30	-21.92%	14
1959	46	20.65%	31	-7.24%	11	34	-3.93%	10	39	0.89%	8
1960	41	32.72%	40	17.07%	3	29	-29.14%	14	40	7.16%	8
1961	61	32.82%	54	32.82%	1	40	-0.93%	8	34	-25.17%	14
1962	49	25.29%	30	18.36%	2	49	17.67%	3	45	14.53%	5
1963	45	35.80%				38	12.01%	8	44	19.55%	3
1964	49	36.76%	35	22.71%	4	47	28.46%	3
1965	52	39.60%				52	39.60%	1	32	-0.26%	9
1966	49	29.27%				37	10.23%	8	44	17.54%	3
1967	44	35.47%	22	-3.82%	12	22	-14.68%	16	39	20.14%	5
1968	44	27.84%				23	-14.95%	16	29	-10.94%	12
1969	49	32.73%							44	23.36%	5
1970	45	20.99%				28	-7.29%	19	38	14.66%	7
1971	48	41.77%							47	41.77%	1
1972	40	29.34%							34	29.34%	1
1973	44	45.38%							40	45.38%	1
1974	36	32.71%
1975	38	29.08%
1976	38	42.43%

MLB data for 1951-1976 below. Rank is the for AB/HR among the 100 seasons in the study: 1920-2019. The lowest AB/HR was in 1999, which is ranked #1. 1920 #100.

In the matrix above Mantle does not have data for 1953 because his 21 home runs were not enough to be included in the top N MLB home run hitters; #17 hit 24 home runs. The same would apply to Aaron's 26 HR in 1956 and 24 HR in 1964 when the minimum coincidentally was 28 both seasons for the top N MLB home run hitters.

qryHomeRunsTopN

Rank	yearID	AB/HR	HR	AB	AB/HRmin	AB/HRmax	HRmax	HRmin	Batters	Teams
54	1951	17.98	542	9743	12.64	24.21	42	24	18	16
76	1952	19.52	491	9584	13.95	27.52	37	21	18	16
30	1953	16.15	572	9240	12.32	23.38	47	24	17	16
29	1954	16.13	527	8500	11.69	23.20	49	24	16	16
20	1955	15.60	616	9612	11.37	22.59	51	27	18	16
16	1956	15.35	583	8948	10.25	20.79	52	28	17	16
21	1957	15.69	530	8317	11.05	21.44	44	25	16	16
34	1958	16.43	559	9185	11.93	24.12	47	25	17	16
32	1959	16.27	575	9357	12.91	22.41	46	27	17	16
22	1960	15.89	551	8754	10.69	23.71	41	24	17	16
6	1961	14.17	694	9833	9.52	20.04	61	28	18	18
17	1962	15.39	700	10775	11.50	18.97	49	28	20	20
52	1963	17.83	683	12175	11.44	25.20	45	25	22	20
44	1964	17.19	688	11827	10.87	21.89	49	28	21	20
51	1965	17.77	657	11673	10.73	23.15	52	26	21	20
36	1966	16.62	678	11268	11.76	22.34	49	28	20	20
73	1967	19.26	701	13504	12.43	27.73	44	22	25	20
70	1968	18.84	565	10642	13.59	25.41	44	22	20	20
31	1969	16.22	918	14890	10.91	24.04	49	26	27	24
23	1970	15.91	946	15052	12.57	22.67	45	27	28	24
57	1971	18.09	759	13728	10.53	26.42	48	24	25	24
63	1972	18.69	684	12784	13.21	25.41	40	21	25	24
53	1973	17.94	747	13402	9.80	24.96	44	25	25	24
83	1974	21.46	649	13925	14.44	30.57	36	21	26	24
77	1975	19.66	681	13390	13.94	27.67	38	21	25	24
84	1976	22.25	665	14798	12.81	33.67	38	18	28	24

4. Home Run rates: HR leaders who did not also lead in PctDif. Monday, December 2, 2019

1957 Aaron led MLB in HR but not PctDif:

qryHomeRunsTopNyearPctDif

yearID	nameFirst	nameLast	PctDif	PctDif#	HR#	HR	AB	P_AB/HR	Group_ AB/HR	Dif	franchID	teamID	lgID
1957	Ted	Williams	29.57%	1	5	38	420	11.05263	15.69	4.64	BOS	BOS	AL
1957	Duke	Snider	19.07%	2	4	40	508	12.7	15.69	2.99	LAD	BRO	NL
1957	Roy	Sievers	13.21%	3	3	42	572	13.61905	15.69	2.07	MIN	WS1	AL
1957	Ernie	Banks	11.97%	4	2	43	594	13.81395	15.69	1.88	CHC	CHN	NL
1957	Mickey	Mantle	11.16%	5	7	34	474	13.94118	15.69	1.75	NYY	NYA	AL
1957	Hank	Aaron	10.93%	6	1	44	615	13.97727	15.69	1.72	ATL	ML1	NL
1957	Hank	Sauer	7.35%	7	15	26	378	14.53846	15.69	1.15	SFG	NY1	NL
1957	George	Crowe	-1.55%	8	9	31	494	15.93548	15.69	-0.24	CIN	CIN	NL
1957	Gus	Zernial	-3.14%	9	13	27	437	16.18518	15.69	-0.49	OAK	KC1	AL
1957	Willie	Mays	-6.51%	10	6	35	585	16.71428	15.69	-1.02	SFG	NY1	NL
1957	Stan	Musial	-10.31%	11	10	29	502	17.31034	15.69	-1.62	STL	SLN	NL
1957	Eddie	Mathews	-13.91%	12	8	32	572	17.875	15.69	-2.18	ATL	ML1	NL
1957	Vic	Wertz	-17.21%	13	12	28	515	18.39286	15.69	-2.70	CLE	CLE	AL
1957	Rocky	Colavito	-17.51%	14	16	25	461	18.44	15.69	-2.75	CLE	CLE	AL
1957	Frank	Robinson	-34.26%	15	10	29	611	21.06897	15.69	-5.38	CIN	CIN	NL
1957	Gil	Hodges	-36.65%	16	13	27	579	21.44444	15.69	-5.75	LAD	BRO	NL

1962 Mays led MLB in HR but not PctDif:

qryHomeRunsTopNyearPctDif

yearID	nameFirst	nameLast	PctDif	PctDif#	HR#	HR	AB	P_AB/HR	Group_ AB/HR	Dif	franchID	teamID	lgID
1962	Harmon	Killebrew	25.29%	1	2	48	552	11.5	15.39	3.89	MIN	MIN	AL
1962	Mickey	Mantle	18.36%	2	14	30	377	12.56667	15.39	2.83	NYY	NYA	AL
1962	Willie	Mays	17.67%	3	1	49	621	12.67347	15.39	2.72	SFG	SFN	NL
1962	Norm	Cash	15.55%	4	4	39	507	13	15.39	2.39	DET	DET	AL
1962	Hank	Aaron	14.53%	5	3	45	592	13.15556	15.39	2.24	ATL	ML1	NL
1962	Joe	Adcock	12.41%	6	15	29	391	13.48276	15.39	1.91	ATL	ML1	NL
1962	Al	Kaline	10.84%	7	15	29	398	13.72414	15.39	1.67	DET	DET	AL
1962	Frank	Robinson	-1.45%	8	4	39	609	15.61539	15.39	-0.22	CIN	CIN	NL
1962	Frank	Howard	-3.32%	9	13	31	493	15.90323	15.39	-0.51	LAD	LAN	NL
1962	Rocky	Colavito	-5.52%	10	6	37	601	16.24324	15.39	-0.85	DET	DET	AL
1962	Ernie	Banks	-7.10%	11	6	37	610	16.48649	15.39	-1.09	CHC	CHN	NL
1962	Jim	Gentile	-7.29%	12	11	33	545	16.51515	15.39	-1.12	BAL	BAL	AL
1962	Leon	Wagner	-7.46%	13	6	37	612	16.54054	15.39	-1.15	ANA	LAA	AL
1962	Frank	Thomas	-9.10%	14	10	34	571	16.79412	15.39	-1.40	NYM	NYN	NL
1962	Gordy	Coleman	-10.44%	15	20	28	476	17	15.39	-1.61	CIN	CIN	NL
1962	Orlando	Cepeda	-16.01%	16	9	35	625	17.85714	15.39	-2.46	SFG	SFN	NL
1962	Roger	Maris	-16.15%	17	11	33	590	17.87879	15.39	-2.49	NYY	NYA	AL
1962	Bob	Allison	-16.27%	18	15	29	519	17.89655	15.39	-2.50	MIN	MIN	AL
1962	Eddie	Mathews	-20.07%	19	15	29	536	18.48276	15.39	-3.09	ATL	ML1	NL
1962	Don	Demeter	-23.21%	20	15	29	550	18.96552	15.39	-3.57	PHI	PHI	NL