First, I've figured out why you're seeing some odd results at various Gap ratings. The game works out the number of doubles, and the number of triples (using Speed), and then rounds off both. At, say, Gap = 20, it may be that the game is supposed to produce 5.7 2Bs/3Bs. At some low speed, you might get 0.4 3Bs and 5.3 2Bs, which will round to 5 2Bs, 0 3Bs. At a different speed, you might get 0.6 3Bs and 5.1 2Bs, rounding to 5 2Bs and 1 3B. So the unusual results you see at certain Gap ratings are a kind of compounded rounding error, and if you adjust speed while leaving Gap alone, you'll see that 2Bs+3Bs can change by 1. Normalized to 550 ABs, the number of 2Bs+3Bs appears to be 0.285*Gap.
I agree you can adjust BABIP and Avoid K independently, and the resulting number of hits remains the same for given Contact rating. However, in my Editor, if I change Power, the Contact rating will change. For example:
BABIP: 100
Avoid K: 100
Power: 1
Resulting Contact: 90
BABIP: 100
Avoid K: 100
Power: 100
Resulting Contact: 101
BABIP: 100
Avoid K: 100
Power: 200
Resulting Contact: 144
The Contact rating determines the total number of hits, not the total number of singles. Do you see something different in your Editor?
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Originally Posted by jar2574
From what I saw, you can adjust Avoid K and BABIP to get the contact rating you want. At any given contract rating, it didn't really matter how you adjusted Avoid K and BABIP. It didn't matter whether the dude struck out all the time and had a great BABIP or whether he never struck out but didn't have a great BABIP. The contact rating of 10 produced the same amount of singles regardless of how you arrived at it.
I did not notice any affect on the Contact rating based on the Power rating. The Contact rating didn't go up when I increased or decreased Power.
The batting average expected would go up when I increased the Power rating. The Power rating affects batting average independently of Contact rating, from what I saw. It adds home runs to the singles from Contact rating and the doubles/triples of Gap rating.
But from what I saw, the contact rating ONLY affected singles. It did not affect doubles or triples or home runs.
To get an expected batting average we'd add up the HR, doubles, triples, and singles to get total hits, and then divide total hits by at bats.
So Power Rating, Gap Rating, and Contact Rating all play a role in batting average, but they all play that role independently of one another.
As an aside, I noticed some of the aburd results as well. The 250 Gap, 1 Contact player produces incoherent expected results. But in general, I think that the expected results are fairly accurate because the game doesn't produce players with 25 Gap, 1 Contact.
I think a lot of varience will come from the league and the quality of competition. As an example, I played out a season where Kiner won the batting title with a .356 average, even though he has a 12 contact rating (or at least that's what my scouts said.) He hit 56 HR or so, so those HR really jacked up his batting average.
Meanwhile a singles hitter had better have a really high contact rating if he can't get doubles from Gap or home runs from Power. Otherwise his batting average will be a lot lower than you'd expect. Walker for the Cardinals in 1947 comes to mind. His contact is like 19, but he hasn't led the league in any of the seasons I've played out. This is possibly because he doesn't hit many homers.
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