Broken Bat - Discussion Forum: GB, FB, LD

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#40361	10/05/2016 4:52:06 am
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	Let's see if I'm getting this correctly. Hits that don't say "ground ball" are line drives. Line drives are neither ground balls or fly balls. GB/FB ratio does not consider line drives. Without tabulating them yourself, there's no way to know line drive rates. It seems to me that line drive rate is probably at least as important as GB/FB, and I'm wondering if I'm missing something that tells us what it is.

#40362	10/05/2016 6:21:26 am
Dan6176 Joined: 04/30/2016 Posts: 254 Inactive	I've always thought line drives were considered flyballs because no matter where they're caught, it's an out.

#40364	10/05/2016 7:08:44 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9599 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I'm not sure how Steve calculates it, but my working assumption is that players closer to 1 hit more line drives. In other words, I'm guessing the that player profile of a guy who hits a lot of pop ups and a lot of ground balls, but few line drives doesn't exist in the game. That is just my working assumption.

#40366	10/05/2016 7:49:44 am
Dan6176 Joined: 04/30/2016 Posts: 254 Inactive	I did some pen and paper tracking and the early results are showing line drives do not go into the GB/FB ratio. Hits to the outfield that do not say groundball hit are considered line drives. Not sure what HR is yet and if some flies drop for hits. This is too much work for me. A guy with a high SLG, with many doubles and triples probably is a line drive hitter. Just glad I learned line drives aren't in the GB/FB ratio. Updated Wednesday, October 5 2016 @ 8:00:09 am PDT

#40513	10/07/2016 4:36:33 pm
Crazy Li Joined: 01/25/2015 Posts: 879 Inactive	Well if we look at a site that only does GB/FB ratio, such as baseball-reference.com (as opposed to fangraphs which just does LB%, GB%, and FB% separately), they do in fact include line drives as fly balls. Perhaps this is the correct way to do it? Granted I would prefer fangraphs style of just putting the three percentages so you can get a better breakdown.