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SactoSooner
5/21/2005, 01:03 PM
Does anyone here know what the stat "cont%" means? I've never heard of it and can't find its definition online.

TIA

OklahomaTrombone
5/21/2005, 03:29 PM
Do you have the stat in its context?

SactoSooner
5/21/2005, 03:58 PM
Here's what I'm looking at...

Batting Report (http://athletics.spokanefalls.edu/baseball/Batting%20Report.htm)

Scott D
5/21/2005, 04:00 PM
I'm thinking % of time contact was made....Ike?

OklahomaTrombone
5/21/2005, 04:37 PM
I'm thinking % of time contact was made....Ike?


Yeah...Looks like the number of times the ball was put into play...either resulting in a hit or an out.

Ike
5/21/2005, 04:45 PM
Ive never seen it before, but it does appear to be the percent of the time a hitter put the ball in play. I verified that it is the same number as taking (AB-SO)/AB

SactoSooner
5/21/2005, 05:20 PM
That sounds about right. The boy can definitely put the ball into play, but he's struggled since his shoulder injury with ball placement.

snp
5/22/2005, 01:20 PM
That seems like a terrible stat to even care about.

Double plays count more then walks.

Scott D
5/22/2005, 03:22 PM
Scouts care about those kinds of stats.

snp
5/22/2005, 03:57 PM
It's still the most worthless stat.

Even worse then Slugging % on the third sunday of the month vs left-handed pitchers on a full count.

GrapevineSooner
5/24/2005, 01:46 PM
I'm thinking because the percentages are so high, it's a measure of the following:

Number of foul balls hit + Number of fair balls hit / Number of pitches swung at.

And that stat is certainly meaningful when you've got a guy coming up to the plate with a runner on second and nobody out and you need to move the runner to third.

snp
5/24/2005, 07:01 PM
And that stat is certainly meaningful when you've got a guy coming up to the plate with a runner on second and nobody out and you need to move the runner to third.
I could still care less about it. I know baseball is by far the most quantified sport, but somewhere we gotta draw the line at the meaningless stats.