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Let's award a batter 2 points for a single, 3 pts for a double, 4 pts for a triple, and 5 pts for a homerun.
To complete the statistic, let's award the batter 1 point for a walk, and 1 point if he is hit by the pitch.
Call it "Advanced Batting Index".
If we calculate a batter's average Advanced Batting Index, is this equivalent to OPS?
Not quite. The denominators are different for SLG and OBP, which makes combining the numerators more complicated than you're making it:
SLG = TB / AB
OBP = (H + BB + HBP) / (AB + BB + SF + HBP)
Take a look at the equations.
OPS is on-base percentage + slugging/ at bats.
Slugging gives 1 for single, 2 for double, three for triple, four for HR. On base percentage give 1 for all those, 1 for walk and 1 for HBP.
So yours is OPS*At Bats.
