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Fantasy Dr X: Strike Zone

Baseball Hitters contact rate!

January 11, 2008
Author: Antonino Buccellato


Rating: 5.8 out of 10
Total votes: 5
I started looking into the Contact Rate % and how it can affect Fantasy Owners, and the more I dug into this, the more I felt that those with lower Contact Rate % were better for your team.  Why?  Well when you look at Contact Rate %, the formula is ((AB-K)/AB), which means we eliminate walks completely out of the mix.  So, players that have a high rate of walks, but strikeout a lot will be effected more towards the lower end of the Contact Rate. I also wanted to see those that had at least 150 AB's, this way it wouldn't screw with the overall effect of this PDF.
Lets take a look at the Top 10 HR hitters and how Contact Rate % affected them: 
Last 
First 
Tm 
Lg 
Pos 
R 
HR 
RBI 
SB 
BB 
K 
BA 
CT%
Rodriguez
Alex
NYA
AL
3B
143
54
156
24
95
120
.314
79%
Fielder
Prince G
MIL
NL
1B
109
50
119
2
90
121
.288
79%
Howard
Ryan J
PHI
NL
1B
94
47
136
1
107
199
.268
62%
Pena
Carlos
TB
AL
1B
99
46
121
1
103
142
.282
71%
Dunn
Adam
CIN
NL
LF
101
40
106
9
101
165
.264
68%
Holliday
Matt T
COL
NL
LF
120
36
137
11
63
126
.340
80%
Ortiz
David
BOS
AL
DH
116
35
117
3
111
103
.332
81%
Thome
Jim
CHA
AL
DH
79
35
96
0
95
134
.276
69%
Cabrera
Miguel
FLA
NL
3B
91
34
119
2
79
127
.320
78%
As you can see, only two of the Top 10 HR hitters from a year ago had a Contact Rate over 80%, which is the magical number that we are supposed to look for.  
Where Contact Rate comes into play more is when you're looking for player with higher average.  Of the those players who had a Contact Rate of 80% or more 51 players had a batting average over .300, compared to just 10 that were below 80%.
Also, of these players that had at least 20+ HR's, 44 players had a Contact Rate of 80% or more, compared to those under 80%, with only 40 players applied.
This is another great tool to use when playing out your Fantasy Baseball Draft.
 
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