During in-season play, I noticed all the speedsters (naturally) lead the league in BH's (Bunt Hits) and IH's (Infield Hits).

To my knowledge, those are stats that are not adjustable in any way via the adjustable parameters in the Manager Center. Although please correct me if I am wrong, because I'd like to be able to adjust those stats if possible.

Do the Sac Bunt settings affect the BH stats?

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Thanks!

There's no available setting for "Bunt for a hit". As far as I know, the Sac Bunt settings are unrelated to Hit Bunt attempts. If they are, that, in my opinion, is silly.

When determining if the batter is going to try to bunt for a hit, the engine probably considers speed somewhere close to first, but after the base/out situation. It probably adjusts for other offensive abilities. Wouldn't surprise me if RC/27 or OPS/OPS+ got factored in. Better = less likely to bunt for any reason. Crackpot theory, I know, but it'd make sense in a quick and dirty kind of way.

Its pretty simple. The 1,000 sided die in the sky is rolled to determine whether or not the batter acheived an out, walk, HBP, single, double, triple, or HR. Out types and types of singles are just cosmetic stuff that is added in afterwards. Its assumed that fast dudes get a certain % of their hits via the bunt, so some of their singles will labled as such. Nothin worth paying attn to...

Or that, yeah. Occam's razor and ****.

It's not just speed. Lloyd Waner just destroyed a prog I'm in when it came to BH/IFH. He had like 160 singles in real life though. I'm guessing high singles guys (and maybe more of the old-timers?) will get more IF hits.

Quote: Originally Posted By stentorian on 5/19/2010

Do the Sac Bunt settings affect the BH stats?

whenever you sac there is a possibility you'll beat it out for a hit. more sac attempts = more chances for bunt hits.

Quote: Originally Posted By rbow923 on 5/20/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By stentorian on 5/19/2010

Do the Sac Bunt settings affect the BH stats?

whenever you sac there is a possibility you'll beat it out for a hit. more sac attempts = more chances for bunt hits.

That's interesting. I'd be curious to hear if other folks had experiences where speedsters (say, high-90's SPD) with Sac Bunt set at '5' ended up getting a proportionately higher percentage of BH's than the slugfooted players.