[zukes]

Originally Posted by RonCo

I started having fun, so played around even more, running thousands and thousands of hitters through my little routine. Here's the span of results of .300 hitters given a certain # of seasons.

#    Low    High
5000    .240    .360
10000    .232    .367
50000    .225    .376
100000    .225    .381
500000    .210    .385
1000000    .207    .385

So, basically, if your ratings say you're a .300 hitter, this data says you have well under 1 in a million chances to hit .400. On the good side, you should _always_ hit better than .207.

EDIT: The highest I could get in subsequent testing of 1,000,000 hitters at a time was .392.

Just makes .400 all the more magical.