PG,
Do you mean they have the option to set the criteria or to generate a QAB?
Hopefully no one will take this as my saying QABs are useless, but rather as trying to find out what they’re used for or putting them in proper perspective.
What would a coach use them for? Using GC as an example, would a high QAB% be used instead of say OBP to determine a player’s BPOS?
To me, QABs are an attempt to keep batters from “pressing”, and for that I suppose it’s a lot better to do that than to just give lip service by saying something like “Way to hit the ball hard”. It seems as though the player who got the duck fart bloop hit, the swinging bunt hit, and reached on an error wasn’t as valuable to the team as the player who hit 3 balls hard but right at someone and got put out, or the player who K’d 3 times but it took 21 pitches to do it.