Stats on Max Preps

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PitchingFan posted:
I understand your thought pattern but you do understand there are only 17 guys in the Baseball Hall of Fame who batted .333 or better. So what should be the number for making all-tournament? For the bigger tournaments there is the all-tournament and best of the tournament which has the top 10 or so players overall. Not trying to start an argument but .333 is not bad batting and at the WWBA's that is 200 kids out of 6,000 kids. Which is 3%. Not bad in my opinion.

The level of pitching across a tournament of this size varies widely. The first couple of times that my son went down he was with a mediocre team that went about .500. They saw very few stud pitchers, and my son had gaudy stats and made a couple of all tournament teams. The last time we went down was with a much better team. Other teams actually arranged their pitching for us and he faced a number of kids already committed to D1 programs. He hit .300 and didn't make the all tournament team but I thought his performance was actually much better than the times he made it.

4/28/1910:25 AM

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PitchingFan posted:
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Buckeye 2015 posted:
$tinky posted:
I tend to agree about the maxpreps hs stats. Would you guys say the same thing about perfect game game stats? Would you say these hold the same merit (or lack of) than hs maxprep stats?
Same as HS....nothing. They put 200+ kids on the all-tourney team at every event. Anyone who hits over .333 gets their name on the list. Why? To make parents happy so they can tell their friends "my son made the all tourney team at a big tourney in Georgia" Again, coaches, scouts, etc don't care about stats AT ALL....they care what they see on the field, not in a box score or stat sheet.
When our team played there for the first time I think we were 12. It was at lakepoint so every pitch was gunned. Everyone of our players was throwing about 5mph higher than what they had thrown when we gunned them. I would not be surprised if that is inflated to make parents talk as well.
My son's speed has always been right in line on an average with what he has thrown everywhere else and the coach's guns around us. Your son's team must be studs to throw 60' at 12 on a consistent basis because Lakepoint only has the 60/90 mounds. I'm impressed.