BBCOR 2012 Post Mortem

[gg2224]

The stats' seem pretty clear on the impact of BBCOR this year, with the total home runs dropping from a total of 4129 reported in 2011 to just 2245 in 2012 (source: quikstats). That's a decline of 46%.


Still, the runs scored per team per game dropped only 3.5% (68,889 total runs scored in 2011 vs 66,421 scored in 2012).


It seems to me that players and coaches found a way to keep the offensive part of the game interesting without the long ball.


If anyone saw DCG's hitting clinic during the state tourney - specifically, how their hitters perfectly executed the art of working with the pitch and taking it to the opposite field....combined with the increased amount of small ball played in 2012 across the board by all teams - I'd have to argue that 2012 technique very nearly trumped 2011 technology.


That's got to be better for the game.


Chalk one up for John Henry.

 

[gg2224]

A couple other notable offensive stats (reported as statistic per game per team, year over year percent change)


Runs/G dropped from about 13 to 12.2, a decrease of 5.9% Sacrifices/G increased 13.1%Free Passes/G (HBP+BB) increased slightly, at 1.3%Ks/G increased 3%At Bats/G were nearly the same, dropping just 0.5%Total Bases/G dropped 9.3 %
Again, these were determined from quikstats, and calculated across all classes.

 

[Who Are You]

How about extra base hits (just doubles and triples)? Id be curious to see if they increased. In the games we played it seemed like they didnt but gg can you get those numbers.

 

[gg2224]

Doubles per game dropped off 6.8%.


Interestingly, triples increased by 2.5%.

 

[Rocket98]

Triples increased because the good coaches had their outfielders play shallower which resulted in fewer bloopers, but increased triples where outfielders got burned.

 

[gg2224]

To build on rocket's contention, I think a certain percentage of 'almost home runs' landed in the expanded, "triple favorable" regions on the field he described. Specifically, a portion of those ~ 2000 hits (from the 2000 fewer home runs hit in 2012 vs 2011) while lacking the extra BESR juice to leave the park, were still hit well enough to open areas of the field, behind the outfielders, and resulted in a few extra triples.


Some other stats....


Hit Distribution : type of hit by percent: 2011 / 2012



1B 74.2% / 76.9%


2B 18.5% / 17.9%


3B 2.3% / 2.5%


HR 4.9% / 2.7%


Total Hits 83,658 / 82,570


Batting Ave 0.304 / 0.295
This post was edited on 8/8 8:46 AM by gg2224