[Garlon]

Suggestion
New Speed rating calculation for historical players based on their stats.

Speed rating
A player’s Speed rating refers to how often he attempts to steal a base. To accurately determine Speed ratings we need to take Stolen Base Attempts (SB + CS) and divide by the number of times a player reached first base, which are his singles, walks, and hit by pitch.

(SBA/RFB) * Speed Baseline Average = Speed rating

SBA = player stolen base attempts. (Stolen Bases + Caught Stealing)
RFB = player's times reaching first base. (BB + HBP + H - 2B - 3B - HR) Note how doubles, triples, and HRs have been eliminated so that all we are left with essentially is BB + HBP + Singles.

Reason
This new formula for Speed rating will provide more realistic stolen base totals for individual players and it will also work in conjunction with a new league totals modifier for stolen base attempts. Stolen Bases have always been a sore spot for histoical simmers, but we can get SB's as accurate as the DIPS categories with th league toals modifiers.

Priority
High (MUST have)