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Originally Posted by Orcin
Doesn't league normalization affect contact hitters in the same way?
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Yes, it affects them. But not in the same way, precisely. I don't know the specifics of course, but however they are doing it seems to benefit the contact hitters and ruin the power guys.
My best guess has to do with the power rating being included in the CONTACT rating, to account for the fact that home runs are "hits" and so they must be represented in batting averages. So if the league normalization process "takes away" a homer, because the league is already at it's homer quota, it's not just turning the HR into a single. It's turning it into an out.