old_school posted:
stats after 20 AB's or 30 AB's are close to worthless. sample size issues...
In HS or other short seasons the only stats that matter are the eye test and metrics of talent.
This kind of response is how arguments about stats start. The OP wasn’t asking about how meaningful stats were or how accurate they were to predict what players would do in the future! All JA’CRISPY was asking for what was what people in the different parts of the country considered “good hitting stats”.
All anyone needs for that is to pick a metric, find the average for an area in that metric, determine what percentage above that is good, and then compare players to it. That hasn’t got a dang thing to do with predicting whether a player will get a ‘ship or get drafted. It’s purely about simple math because it can’t be done only by the eye test because it’s impossible to see every player in the country!
Since there is no mandatory national database for stats, I referred him to the largest one by far in the country. It definitely has its limits, but it’s the best available source for HS stats.