Softball Plus/Minus Statistic

I was bored this weekend, so I decided to compile some new statistics. This is simple stuff, really. It's just the number of times a person reached base safely via hit or walk, the number of outs that person made, and a +/- from those two numbers.

It's basically OB% expressed another way (a .500 OB% would equal 0 as a +/-, neither a positive number nor a negative number. Over .500 would yield a +, under .500 a -.)

This is for the 23 players with at least 10 plate appearances between 2010 & 2011.

PLAYER           Reached       Outs      +/-

Fred Goodman        69        41       +28
Pat Atton           69        47       +22
Charlie Connors     30        12       +18
Danny Espinosa      32        19       +13
Jay Atton           58        47       +11
Drew Atton          31        21       +10
Jim Sullivan        50        41       + 9
Robbie Rogers       28        20       + 8
Cam Zirpolo         22        21       + 1
Tom Resor           22        21       + 1
Bill Davis          10         9       + 1
Eric MacDonald      15        16       - 1
Seth Moscowitz      13        14       - 1
Josh Lebron          6         7       - 1
Joel Kershner        5         6       - 1
Emilio Zirpolo      44        48       - 4
Pat Pickup          12        16       - 4
Pat Kelly            3         8       - 5
Ron Johnson         27        34       - 7
Jack Atton          30        38       - 8
Joe Baszkiewicz     40        49       - 9
Bobby Fallon         5        16       -11
Manny Dominguez     17        31       -14

Of course, there are other factors (power, hitting with men in scoring position, etc.) that are important, and a simple plus/minus isn't always a full picture of a batter's worth to his team, but it does give a quick snapshot of how likely a guy is to keep an inning going.