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Originally Posted by DonMattingly
Not quite sure I understand. If CON is an artificial stat made up of other ratings, then why does it matter in Diamond Level or anywhere else? If it's a predictor only then it should affect BA.
And I thought BABIP was an actual rating, one which you can only see in an editor. But you're making it sound more like CON, only it's made up from CON and POW. Or are you talking about the stat there (in the second sentence)?
I can understand why a good AvoidK helps at the higher levels for BA. But I'm still not understanding why a high POW lowers BA or BABIP.
Is the idea that high MOV pitchers turn some HRs in to outs, so those are hits being taken away from high POW hitters (and hence would lower the BABIP stat, but not rating)?
Wouldn't a lot of those HRs turn in to doubles/triples, or does the game not ever have that be an outcome if high MOV denies what would have been a HR?
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ok, again, from another thread, the way an AB is processed internally in OOTP is by a series of opposition rolls:
1. What happens before an ab is complete: HP (opposition roll between batter HP rating and pitcher HP rating -- both hidden in PT), base stealing attempts, pickoff attempts, etc.
2. Is it a Walk? (opposition between Pitcher CON and batter EYE)
3. Is it a homerun(opposition roll between batter POW and pitcher MOV)/strikeout (opposition roll between batter AvoidK and pitcher STU) --- since these seem to be completely independent of each other, it is as if they occur simultaneously
4. Else the batter hits the ball and it becomes an opposition roll between batter BABIP rating and relevant fielder rating based on how and where the ball is hit, which depends on opposition roll between pitcher gb % and batter tendencies). Now that logs reveal exit velocity from swing there is evidence that BABIP affects average exit velocity.
Nowhere is CON used in the opposition rolls. If you look at player editor, you can see the expected number of Ks that a batter will get against average MLB pitcher for a given AvoidK rating, and expected number of HRs a batter will get for a given POW rating. BABIP applies to all other ABs so that CON is computed to be a direct indicator of BA in that envirionment.