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  1. Scorekeeper

    Gamechanger Stats

    It doesn’t matter what stats are available or how valid they are as far as putting together a lineup until whoever is doing that has laid down the guidelines for every batting position. Only then can the numbers be analyzed with any degree of accuracy. FI, let’s say the most “important” spot...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    I looked up the stats for PAC-12 softball. As of May 10th they had 389 HRs in 223 games and 11,657 ABs. That’s 1.74 HRs per game and 1 HR every 30 ABs. For the baseball team through May 12th it was 228 HRs in 244 games and 16,563 ABs. That’s .93 per game and 1 in every 72.64 ABs. The 10 top HS...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    My son was a BB pitcher in the years when hitters were using Titanium bats as well as all the other “hot” bats that could be rolled, shaved, and otherwise manipulated to make balls jump outrageous distances. To tell the truth, the last thing I worried about was how much danger he was in when...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    Who’s trying to “align” them? All I did was notice that the rate of HRs in MLB is a lot higher than HSB, but that HSFPSB has a HR rate that’s a lot higher than HSBB’s. I don’t want them to be the same in any way whatsoever, other than they both come from the same basic rules. It seems...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    I didn’t try to compare the two other than to note the HR rate, i.e. PAs/HRs. HRs/PAs, HRs per game or however you want to determine the rate, in HSSB in Ca is closer to the MLB HR rate than HSBB. Just for kicks I looked up the 2015 season’s stats for National Pro Fastpitch. They had 184 HRs...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    Of course you don’t because it doesn’t bother you that the thought didn’t come entirely from you. Not everyone is like that, and some believe that if they think something isn’t worth thinking about, it must therefore be absurd.
  7. Scorekeeper

    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    Since I have no softball experience to speak of, I honestly can’t say even how the number of HRs today compares to the number at some point in the past. All I did was look at MaxPreps in Ca to see the HR leaders in both SB and BB. The difference was striking. I suppose if someone wanted to...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    Now that’s a very intelligent response to the thread, for a chimpanzee. If you think the thread is meaningless and doesn’t interest you, why respond at all? The only person you’ve impressed is yourself.
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    I have no idea how many SB games are played on fields without fences across the state. I know of 1 local HSVBB field without a fence and another without a centerfield fence.
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    BBCOR has certainly affected the number of HRs in HS and college, but even during the height of hot bats, the rate of HRs being hit in HS was far below that in MLB. And what about back in the days before metal? I played then and can guarantee HRs weren’t flying out of HS fields at the same rate...
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    Comparing HRs in HSSB to HSBB.

    Never thought about it before, but reading through a recent thread about HRs in FPSB it made me wonder why in Ca the HR rate in FPSB is so much higher than the HR rate in baseball. Personally, I’ve always believed in baseball they should move the fences in until the HR rate is reasonably close...
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    Comparing AB ending on 1st pitch to all others

    I’m not quite sure what FPSH% above is. Is it 1st pitch strike percentage or BA on 1st pitch? The way I compute BA on 1st pitch is to only look at BIPs on the 1st pitch. That’s FPHits/(FPOuts+FPROFC+FPHits+ROEs). Then I compute a non-1st pitch BA by subtracting FPHits from total hits, FPOuts...
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    Comparing AB ending on 1st pitch to all others

    I guess I wasn’t clear what I was asking for. I have some data for amateur baseball and was looking for data on SB. Please see =====> There are 3 columns I was looking at. 1st Pitch BA, Non 1st Pitch BA, and Overall BA. From what I can tell, putting that 1st pitch in play is a lot more...
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    Comparing AB ending on 1st pitch to all others

    Has anyone compared BA when the AB ends on an 0-0 count(1st pitch) as compared to BA where the AB ends on all other counts?
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    Called strikes and missed swings

    I didn’t say them! Don’t try to judge what happens at the amateur levels by what goes on in ML baseball. It’s apples and oranges. Have you seen or heard of anyone who has researched it? I’m sure in ML think tanks it’s been done, but those guys don’t release a lot of the stuff they research...
  16. Scorekeeper

    Called strikes and missed swings

    I didn’t say high contact guaranteed the player being a good hitter. All I was trying to say was that I believe it could be indicative of a “problem”. IOW, low contact rate is a red flag just as you indicate. If the player has a low contact rate and further investigation shows a low number of...
  17. Scorekeeper

    Called strikes and missed swings

    That’s a fair statement. Here’s the numbers I’m looking at for this season.
  18. Scorekeeper

    Called strikes and missed swings

    If a hitter has a high percentage of called strikes when s/he bats, does it show anything? How about if the hitter has a low contact percentage when s/he swings?
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    Overhand throwing speed

    A player’s hand size has a great deal to do with throwing velocity in baseball, and I suspect it makes an even bigger difference in girls FPSB because the balls are much bigger and the average size of the player is smaller. ;)
  20. Scorekeeper

    Hustling in and out and to 1st.

    You’re right. TV is a poor way to see “hustle”, and many of them do hustle a great deal. That’s not the issue. They don’t hustle anything like the average woman’s FPSB team, or even lower level baseball teams. But no one’s questioned hustle on defense, which is what you described. The talks so...

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