Does anyone here know what the stat "cont%" means? I've never heard of it and can't find its definition online.
TIA
Does anyone here know what the stat "cont%" means? I've never heard of it and can't find its definition online.
TIA
Do you have the stat in its context?
Here's what I'm looking at...
Batting Report
I'm thinking % of time contact was made....Ike?
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
Originally Posted by Scott D
Yeah...Looks like the number of times the ball was put into play...either resulting in a hit or an out.
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
That sounds about right. The boy can definitely put the ball into play, but he's struggled since his shoulder injury with ball placement.
That seems like a terrible stat to even care about.
Double plays count more then walks.
Scouts care about those kinds of stats.
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
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.
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.
Just imagine there's a really obnoxious graphical sig here
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.Originally Posted by GrapevineSooner