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Hmm, I was about to make a thread with broadly these suggestions, then realized I should do a Search in case it had already been brought up...
I really support this idea. Tracking GB/FB/LD outcomes for hitters would be very useful (HR/FB would be so useful for stats-only play). Swinging strikes similarly so. Both of these seem to be logged in the Box Scores already, it would just be a case of the game engine adding them to each player's individual stats. If I could add to blasek0's suggestion, two further helpful stats to track (if possible) would be:
- infield hits (helpful for stats-only play as a high infield hit percentage has significance in constructing batting lineups, and cannot be accounted for in advanced metrics which view a-hit-as-better-than-a-walk)
- strike zone discipline i.e. how often a batter is swinging at pitches outside the zone (I don't know whether this, seemingly more detailed, layer of stats, is tracked by the game - it sometimes appears in the PbP but the Game Log itself doesn't preserve a log of whether Swinging Strikes were at good pitches or not - but if it were, logging for batters would be really useful for judging discipline in stats-only play).
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