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11-09-2020, 01:01 PM | #1 |
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What to look for in a leadoff hitter?
Right now I invested a lot of extra perfect points in a Wille Mays card. Because he has great contact ratings against both righties and lefties, I have him in my leadoff spot. But are there other stats that I should be looking at? Does flyball tendency mean a bad leadoff hitter? Should I be looking at a more neutral hitter?
Thanks for the advice! First year doing perfect team and I am LOVING it!
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11-09-2020, 01:29 PM | #2 |
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OBP comes first, so basically contact (with low power rating), and eye rating. Then of course base stealing ability is a nice bonus (ideally both speed and stealing over 100 with stealing higher than speed).
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11-09-2020, 01:35 PM | #3 |
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11-09-2020, 01:47 PM | #4 | |
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What is more improtant, avoid k's or eye discipline?
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11-09-2020, 02:32 PM | #5 | |
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Also, as someone struggling to get back into 21, what is the current meta for the game?
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11-09-2020, 03:03 PM | #6 |
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What if you looked at several players with various ratings and compare their stats over a couple seasons instead of asking us to play the game for you...
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11-09-2020, 03:18 PM | #7 |
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Sorry to be a bother. Just trying to learn.
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11-09-2020, 04:12 PM | #8 | |
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Ask 10 different people, you're going to get maybe not 10, but a few different answers. I can say with certainty that a batter with a high contact rating, a high avoid K rating and a high eye rating I would expect to have a high OBP |
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11-09-2020, 06:10 PM | #9 |
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You are fine. It does help to look and find a guy you personally like, but the community should be here to help people out. Researching yourself will help you to be a better player in the long run, but nothing wrong with looking to get pointed in the right direction. I do not get why people have to be rude, and make people feel bad for having a question.
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11-09-2020, 08:30 PM | #10 |
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I would ignore avoid K rating, since it's already factored into contact rating. I look at avoid K as just an indicator of how the guy gets out. Is it by hitting the ball in play or by striking out. Avoid K means more chance of advancing runners without a earning a hit, more chance of double play, and better ability to make contact on hit and run. At least that's what I believe.
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11-09-2020, 08:50 PM | #11 |
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Unless I am completely mistaken, Avoid K and Contact are totally different. Avoid K is their tendency to not strike out, and contact is likelihood of getting a hit when the ball is put in play or in other terms BABIP. Therefore If you have a low Avoid K then you are striking out a ton and even with a high contact rating the player will struggle to have a consistent batting average.
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11-09-2020, 08:56 PM | #12 |
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If you turn on commissioner mode and go into the player editor, you can play with the numbers. Contact is made up of a combination of Avoid Ks and a normally hidden BABIP value. Whatever adjustments you make there, the final contact rating predicts the batting average.
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11-09-2020, 10:15 PM | #13 | |
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11-09-2020, 10:21 PM | #14 |
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What if you didn’t respond at all instead of making the guy feel bad for being curious and asking a reasonable question...
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11-10-2020, 01:36 AM | #15 | |
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11-16-2020, 06:25 AM | #16 |
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Can never go wrong with Rickey leading off vL at least
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