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Originally posted by Steve Kuffrey
Just like in real life, spray hitters more often go the other way, pull hitters pull the ball more often, and normal hitters produce the average distribution of hit directions. The numbers don't "always" play out like this but this is from what Markus told me.
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Hmmm. That is what I had figured originally upon seeing that player attribute. But my experiments show that, at least in OF putouts, it does not have an effect. I ran multiple 8-team league seasons for each setup of all the hitters set to one type and to one handedness, so I did not just compare 3 fluke seasons. Averaged over all those seasons the percentage of OF putouts by each OF position did vary with batter handedness but did not vary at all by hitter type for each handedness.
In just averaging over the seasons for only one team when all hitters were RH, the percentage of IF assists by each IF position did not vary either among the pull, normal, and spray cases. I can say nothing at all about hits, but unless I've really screwed something up somehow the OF data and a taste of the IF data say hitter type isn't doing anything.
Oh well, minor problem if it is one.