K% on Home page?

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K% on Home page? May 25, 2022 14:58:08 GMT -5

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Post by joshuacoffee on May 25, 2022 14:58:08 GMT -5

Any chance we could get K% for the hitters in the top 30 prospects on the homepage? It seems to be one of the most mentioned stats on the podcast and would be handy to have more readily available when looking at prospects. I'd probably recommend replacing the OPS field with it, as anyone with the ability to do addition can quickly come up with that stat based on the provided OBP and SLG. Plus, I'm in favor of trying to move people away from OPS in general anyways, as it overvalues SLG and uses dodgy math in general.

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K% on Home page? May 26, 2022 8:50:53 GMT -5 joshuacoffee likes this

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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 26, 2022 8:50:53 GMT -5

I don't think we'll be doing that, but would mention you can find that info easily on our stats page: www.soxprospects.com/stats/hitting.php on the "sabermetric" tab.

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K% on Home page? May 27, 2022 12:43:34 GMT -5 Chris Hatfield and joshuacoffee like this

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Post by joshuacoffee on May 27, 2022 12:43:34 GMT -5

Wow, that's a lot of manual work! Didn't realize, totally makes sense now. Thanks for the response Mike! And Chris, thanks for the tip about the stats page! Thanks does make finding bulk K5 numbers much easier.

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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 26, 2022 8:50:53 GMT -5

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Post by joshuacoffee on May 27, 2022 12:43:34 GMT -5