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Originally posted by Henry
Which means it should be ignored ? ...thus all batters strikeout frequency is "only" dependent on the pitcher ?
Henry
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Why shouldn't it be? It doesn't affect stats. If I have a guy who puts up 200 K's and a guy who puts up 50 with the same stats otherwise, it makes no difference if he strikes out since it would have been an out anyway. In real life, a strikeout takes away an opportunity for the player to get a hit. If what I read in the screenshot forum is true, here it takes away nothing. The strikeout becomes meaningless since you can just think "Well... he was going to get out anyway." Sure, it's always frustrating to watch a guy strike out in the game, but you just need to remind yourself it doesn't matter.
I am confused about something though. If the batter strikeout rating doesn't affect the players batting average, how can this work?
For example, pitchers strikeouts affect how many hits they allow. For this, their strikeout rating is combined with the batter strikeout rating. This would logically mean that the stikeout thing is accounted for first, before the hit/out, which would MAKE strikeouts for batters matter. But according to the other thread if two guys with the same "contact" rating and different K ratings will have the same average, it doesn't seem to work this way.