BATTERS: HctX scorchers and bleeders
Jun 24 2013
When a player squeaks a dribbler through the infield, he'll often be told by a teammate "It'll look like a line drive in the boxscore." While players can draw comfort from the vague nature of the scorebook, fantasy owners have tools at their disposal to look deeper. Batted ball results can obscure the true quality of the contact being made for a while, but it's more instructive to look at which players are making hard contact most often. HctX or Hard Contact Index allows owners to do just that.
Building off of Patrick Davitt's approach last season, this week we take a closer look at Scorchers and Bleeders in regards to HctX. First, here's a primer on the components and calculations that yield HctX:
- The jumping off point is each...
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