Looking at the 4/26 set, compared to the 4/25 set, with Soliid Hits increased by one, I can see a similar effect to what we've been discussing.
We've discussed it with the Contact slider, but like you pointed out, they can behave similarly in some areas. When I raised Contact, my Home Run numbers fell, while leaving Solid Hits, Power, etc. the same. Likewise, when you raised Solid Hits, and left Contact, Power, etc the same, Home run numbers dropped. No surprise there, of course, but it just fits the discussion.
The other similar thing I noticed is that Line Drive% increased 5.5% with Solid Hits raised one notch. Again, that's what you would expect. The interesting thing to me is that the ground ball% also decreased by 5.4%, leaving fly ball% virtually untouched.
I pointed out in a recent post that my Home Run numbers fell when I raised Contact, despite my Fly Ball numbers remaining nearly the same as before, and that ground balls seemed to turn into Line Drives more than fly balls did.
This may just be a coincidence, and both are relatively small sample sizes, but interesting nonetheless.
I would expect given the same Power, and the same amount of fly balls, that a very similar percentage of those fly balls would carry over the wall.
I immediately thought that fly ball trajectories have just lowered, causing more to fall into play. But that would seem to cause lower fly ball trajectories to turn into high line drives, thus lowering fly ball% which hasn't happened in our given sample sizes, at least.
Maybe with higher sample sizes i would see a more even morph into line drives, but I just see things like this and ask "why"... a lot lol.
I know I think about these things more than 98% of people who play the Show, but at least it keeps me entertained.
I'm not really posing any questions here, just sharing my observations.
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