It's Club Soccer - Don't Complain About it

LASTMAN14 said:
Right here in your first sentence. You imply that possession does not exist.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I should have put that in quotes (as in "possession") referring to the magic number that is taken to be some measure of a team's performance.
 
mirage said:
You gotta do the math.

Baseball pitched at 95mph=139 ft/s over 90 ft distance = 1.54 ft/s
Softball pitched at 60mph=88 ft/s over 60 ft distance = 1.47 ft/s

Baseball is moving faster. On the top of that, the velocity difference between a fastball, breaking ball and change up can be over 0.25 ft/s over the 90 ft distance so the timing is changed significantly (~16%).

The thing with softball pitch that makes it difficult for baseball batters to hit is fact that the players are not used to the ball rising over the trajectory rather down coming down. Not the relative speed over the distance.
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Baseball is 60'6" to home plate, softball is 43'...
 
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