Discovering the RBI Genome

[Big Hath]

Thought we could get a link to all the great RBI inner-workings threads in one place.  Here are some that I found:

Pitcher ROM data explained, and question of "unknown data"
Ever wondered how well your pitchers bat?
Contact explained
"BOP"s explained
Pitcher stamina explained
Existence of the "groundball" attribute?
Lower pitcher ERAs, revealed
Pitcher Speeds
Tengen Stadium Dimensions
PH Power Boost
"BOP"s revisited
Stat Extraction Discussion
Steals: Minimum speed and probability for CPU players
More discussion of pitcher unknown data
Pitcher unknowns explained

What other threads are out there where RBI mysteries are solved?

[ultimate7]

Nice work Hath, this should maybe be a sticky, I'll see if I can think of any more that should be included.

EDIT:  PH +64 bonus

[BDawk]

Pinch hitters whose names begin with H

[Reds]

One I always found interesting.

[Gantry]

Lower pitcher ERAs, revealed

[Big Hath]

bumpst, two threads added to the list

[Big Hath]

also found the PH boost thread

[Big Hath]

added Gantry's further BOP research

[Reds]

I like my link earlier in the thread.....

[Big Hath]

I like my link earlier in the thread.....

it probably belongs in a 'Discovering the Dee-Nee Genome' thread

[Big Hath]

hey Sarc, you might find this thread interesting - a lot of links in the first post to other threads where RBI has been disected on the programming level

[Big Hath]

bumpst for Re-Peat

[Re-Peat]

Thanks Hath, this is a sweet thread.  I think it should be sticky in the RBI section...

[TbT]

i prefered the other thread(RBI Genome related) where goreds or briznok had a long diatribe about us digging and digging into the rom data and such and eventually discovering something horrific about RBI that would ruin all our lives.

[Big Hath]

added a link to the new stat extraction thread

[BeefMaster]

I would like to second ultimate's earlier call for a sticky on this thread.  I'd also like to thank tecmoturd for stimulating some additional nerdy RBI discussion.

[Big Hath]

bump

[bigbrothermuscle]

This is very helpful Hath. Thanks for updating this stuff. Now I'll have some quality reading ahead of me this weekend.

[Stock]

So we still don't know what determines the trajectory of the ball?
It may or may not use the lookup values 1-6 for being off center.  However, at this point we have no idea if a 03 is any different than a 06.

Some theories (yet to be tested) are that they may be used to skew the probability of trajectory.  Or maybe they are used to determine the hook/slice of the ball?

[BeefMaster]

So we still don't know what determines the trajectory of the ball?
It may or may not use the lookup values 1-6 for being off center.  However, at this point we have no idea if a 03 is any different than a 06.

Some theories (yet to be tested) are that they may be used to skew the probability of trajectory.  Or maybe they are used to determine the hook/slice of the ball?

I've always assumed that trajectory was determined solely by the ball's position relative to the bat's position "vertically" (front or back of the batter's box), although I don't think anyone has gone into the calculations (for example, to see if you get any more power pulling the ball).  It would be interesting to know whether horizontal position affected hook or slice - I think of the bad slices to the opposite field coming off the end of the bat, but I don't really know that.