And at the team level, no surprises here, either.

This is exactly what a real contact-quality leaderboard should look like. The top 5 are not just big EV names. They are hitters whose contact quality holds up through collision, force, and outcome. The bottom names make sense too: contact alone is not damage-quality contact.

Driveline reduces the problem to "timing" and prescribes further diagnosis in the lab. Timing? How can a timing problem produce an elite Hard-Hit Rate? Causal analytics answers the question: What is the cause of Fernando Tatis Jr.'s Power Outage? xfactortechnology.com/fernan…

50-game Causal Analytics rankings. CGD shows collision consistency. CGD-HH shows usable hard-hit power. CQS shows power plus consistency. Three metrics. Three hitter identities. One collision-level view of how production is built.

50-game Causal Analytics ranking for MLB hitters and teams. Collision alignment. Hard-hit energy conversion. Overall contact quality. The rankings also show which team-level patterns may reveal organizational hitting philosophy. xfactortechnology.com/causal…

Everything in Tatis's 40-game data points to 2 things: 1. early barrel entry and a tight swing arc & deep contact (sound familiar) and terrible leverage count swing decisions. This isn't opinion, the data alone tells the story: xfactortechnology.com/decons…

Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 40-game profile exposes the gap: 58.6% Hard-Hit 92.0 mph Avg EV .327 BABIP .293 xwOBA .048 ISO 0 HR 3 XBH BABIP is above average. Bad luck on balls in play doesn’t explain it. xwOBA doesn't see cause. xfactortechnology.com/decons…

Read How New Analytics Solves the Question Everyone is Asking: How does Fernando Tatis Jr. produce a 56.6% Hard-Hit Rate with zero home runs? Collision-level analysis points to: -1.83° Avg Horizontal Barrel Angle 3.66° Avg Spray Angle-12.6° Avg LA xfactortechnology.com/decons…

Why the new 2026 ABS height-adjusted strike zone may expose a flaw in chase-rate analysis by treating previously learned, damage-capable upper-zone collision solutions as simple plate-discipline failures. xfactortechnology.com/propri…

We are pleased to share our CGD and CGD-HH, (power-adjusted) calculator for batted-ball evaluation at the collision level, originally presented at the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference: xfactortechnology.com/cgd-ca…

Here is our research paper "Introduction to Causal Analytics Through the Metrics Collision Geometry Deviation (CGD) and CGD xfactortechnology.com/introd…

We had a great time at 2026 SABR Analytics Conference and are grateful to have been presenters. We introduce a new analytics and it was received very well. Watch out deck presentation here: xfactortechnology.com/sabr-p…

It's official! We will be the lead-off presenters on opening day at the SABR Analytics Conference. We're introducing Causal Analytics. I hope to someday soon raise hitting causality and architecture to the same level pitching has enjoyed throughout the tech boom.

Our abstract on Causal Analytics for the SABR Analytics Conference in February 2026 was accepted and we will be submitting our research paper Jan 9th in our bid to be presenters at the conference. Our thesis is on new analytics CGD, Collision Geometry Deviation.

In my 5th and final installment on this topic, I analyze why balance is not a recovery phase, and how true efficiency requires preserving natural balance throughout the kinetic chain. When hitters stack weight back over one leg, they are induced out of balance into a cycle of disruption and recovery. xfactortechnology.com/loadin…

This article breaks down why being loaded and separated is not enough. The mechanism of release is what initiates the swing. The real distinction is how that load becomes swing. The primer. xfactortechnology.com/drift-… Separation alone does not create rotation. Neither does a weight shift. True swing initiation comes from converting load into torque, powered by rear-leg drive and medial forefoot engagement.

Much of swing instruction has long operated under a 'weight shift' model, assuming that energy is created by gathering mass over the rear leg and transferring it forward. This model is mechanically incomplete. This article argues that true rotational power is not a product of shifting weight, but of active torque engagement. By distinguishing between the passive accumulation of pressure (weight) and the active creation of opposing forces (torque), we demonstrate that rotation is generated by leverage and force direction, not by the linear movement of mass. Check out our new article: xfactortechnology.com/the-ph…

Stop chasing chaos drills. We've written an article highlighting that movement-solutions are already wired into the brain. True baseball skill comes from reading, reacting and timing, not rolling around the ground. Read here → xfactortechnology.com/the-my…

Stupid people think stupid things: Even if “bat” were read narrowly, the app substitutes arms/hands as a "functional equivalent". Under the Doctrine of Equivalents (Graver Tank v. Linde, 339 U.S. 605 (1950); Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis, 520 U.S. 17 (1997)), it performs the same function (swing initiation detection), in the same way (motion sensor), for the same result (swing delay measurement). It therefore infringes.