Is there anyway to determine if a batter will be a successful bunter? I can't find it in the player stats. I know it is a relatively insignificant stat, but it would help me draft better for an 80 million "small ball" team I am working on based around stolen bases, low strikeouts, low hr's, high avg. Would help move those runners along.

Of course this is assuming it is factored into the sim.Not talking about # of bunt hits, which is probably a factor of speed, but instead stats like Bunts in Play (BIP), % of runners advanced on sac bunt attempts, and BIP/Bunt Attempts. In real like - Brett Gardner is going to get more runners advanced on the same number of bunt attempts than David Ortiz - but I have no idea if the simulation knows this.

Any thoughts?

I think bunts are all but guaranteed. Haven't seen any of my pitchers fail to advance a runner via sac bunt

As far as bunting for a hit goes, speed helps

Speed does help. ... and on that subject, I was setting advanced settings (including bunt frequency) and saw that 1987 Tim Burke has an 84 speed rating. I looked him up on b-r.com and he had 12 AB, 6 Ks, and no hits. Weird.

But back to the subject of bunting, moving the runner over is good, but moving the runner and getting on base is better. My gut tells me the bunter needs 90 speed minimum to make that happen.

So Bunts in Play (which is a real tracked stat) does not factor into the sim? The sim assumes equal rates of Bunts in Play, the the best i can do is maximize likelihood of bunt hits?

Is there some sort of Bunts Attempted stat as well? That way we could get a success percentage

Lefties perhaps have better bunt for hit numbers? Think that holds true in real life. You start a few feet closer to first base. Think Ichiro.