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Originally posted by RJM:
The test is flawed. It measures how hard a sixty mph fastball bounces off a stationary bat.

Here’s the white paper for BESR. Where does it say the bat is stationary? The bat velocity is extremely important in the calculation of the formula.

http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/governance/sports_and_r...l/BESRWhitePaper.pdf

Quote From “What Is The Maximum Allowed Value For The BESR?” on page 6 of the paper.

When bats were first tested in 1999, an initial lot of baseballs was used. The tests were
conducted by using a pitch speed of 70 mph and a bat speed (at a point 6 inches from the
end of the barrel) of 66 mph. Under these conditions, the best major league wood bat
yielded a BESR of 0.728, which the NCAA then set to be the maximum allowed value.

Is BESR flawed? IMHO It sure is, but not because bat velocity is zero in their tests.

8/22/0812:02 PM

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