Guide
How to read your session report
The email from the cage can look like a wall of numbers. Here is the short version: four metrics tell you almost everything, and the rest is context.
The four that matter
- Average exit velocity — how hard the ball is being hit across the whole session. This is your headline number.
- Peak exit velocity — the best swing of the day. Good for personal bests.
- Sweet spot rate — the share of batted balls launched between roughly 8° and 32°. High sweet spot rate means productive contact, not just hard contact.
- Contact rate — how often the bat found the ball at all. Falling contact with rising exit velocity usually means the hitter is over-swinging.
What a good session looks like
Not a perfect one. Look for a tight cluster of batted balls in the line-drive window, average exit velocity within a few miles per hour of the peak, and contact rate holding up late in the session. A session where the last ten swings fall apart is a conditioning and focus signal, not a mechanics one.
Numbers to mostly ignore
Simulated batting average, hits and home runs are fun but noisy over 40 to 60 pitches. They depend on where the projected ball landed relative to imaginary fielders. Use them for motivation, not measurement.
Turning the report into a trend
One report is a snapshot. Upload each one to Batting Report and the same four metrics get charted session over session, with a short plain-English note on what improved and what slipped since last time.
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