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Originally Posted by Catchthedamnball
Basically there's this hidden rating, the BABIP rating. I'm not an expert on it because it's somewhat confusing, but I'll try to explain it the best I can and I'm sure others will swing by to clarify it.
Three things factor into it; contact, power, and avoid Ks. CON raises it, while power and AvK lower it (this stands to reason. More CON means better quality of contact, more POW means less batted balls that stay in play, and more AvK means more balls in play which lowers the percentage that go for hits). So guys like your 23 SE Ruth with monster power and contact that is somewhat lower aren't going to cut it because their BABIP is not good.
On the other hand, AvK is still very useful (aside from the obvious appraisals like Tris Speaker where you observe that having a lot of everything makes for a good player). While it technically lowers BABIP, it also raises the floor on the player's batting average because they're putting bat to ball and getting hits more often aside from the times it goes flying over the fence.
As for your observations about batting order, that seems to me like a mixture of confirmation bias (i.e. random noise) and differing performance based on each manager's park factors/platoons.
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I understand what you're trying to say, but it doesn't seem to make much sense from a reality and statistical standpoint. Your batting average for balls in play should be focused solely on the balls you hit into play. Your strikeouts and your home runs shouldn't factor into that, and same with your ratings for strikeouts and your ratings for home runs. It's like rolling a D6 and removing all the 1s and 6s from the results. We remove X outcomes from the results, they don't factor into them.
Besides, why is my George Brett playing terribly on a consistent basis just for me? I don't get it. He's a monster with C/GP/HRP all over 110 and aK 95, and his Eye at 72 (still decent), which should only affect walks if it's defined the way it sounds. I refuse to put him 3rd or 4th in the order with the quality of other guys I have on the team. Brett's vsR this year is .257 and 9HR in 315 AB. That's absolutely mediocre for his ratings, but it's been a consistent theme for him and others on my team.
It just seems like there's something I'm doing that's affecting performance. I've tried various "strategy" slider combos with little effect.
I'm not trying to be a whiner, and I appreciate the advice, but I just don't get it. Or rather, I don't like it. If there's a hidden factor that is not reflected in the player ratings or some combination of them, that's unacceptable to me and makes buying players based upon the visible ratings ridiculous and almost shady. So I'm holding out hope that it's a strategy problem on my part.