How the fit works
A few short answers about your player run through the published rules of the leagues and the makers, and Patrick's own rules wherever they replace the published ones. Every answer on the result says which kind of rule it rests on and links to its source, and nothing about your player is stored unless you save the result.
The five steps for a bat
Each asks only what the bat's fit reads. A glove or cleats takes four of them, and asks only what its own fit reads.
- Player. First, what you are sizing: a bat, a glove or cleats. For a bat, the age, height and weight; a glove asks the throwing hand and, if you have it, the hand length, and cleats the shoe size. No name is asked.
- Baseball. The league and its division, the level, and whether the bat is wood, metal or both; a glove asks the positions instead.
- How they play. The bat your player swings now, how it feels, and whether the hands sting on mis-hits. Every answer here is optional.
- Bat sensor. Yes, no, or what is one. With a sensor, the averages from one session and the bat they came from.
- Budget. The budget, and for cleats whether they are for games or the cage. Every pick fits, each from a different maker: Best and Better go by Pat’s Grade, then by the rankings we credit; where neither speaks, Best is the dearest that fits the budget and Better the one nearest the middle price. Good is the value pick: the lowest price, unless Pat’s Grade or a ranking names one.
Every rule the fit reads, in words
Grouped by what they decide, each with when it applies, what it says and where it came from. A rule Patrick has rewritten shows Patrick's version.
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