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Welcome to the Easton Bat Rule Forum. This is your home base for
updates about the ever-changing landscape of bat rules. Easton BBCOR Bats are now available!
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As a leading manufacturer of Baseball and Softball equipment and as a
pioneer in baseball bat technology,, Easton feels that it is important
for all of us to work through these changes together. Easton is
committed to you – Committed to communicate the information you need to
make informed decisions about your equipment and committed to remain at
the forefront of innovation in order to provide you with the best
equipment possible.
Easton Sports
This new standard measures bat performance and replaces the previous
BESR standard. Beginning in January 2011 for NCAA (college) play and
January 2012 for NFHS (high school) play, all bats must be BBCOR
certified. BESR (Ball Exit Speed Ratio) is no longer considered
accurate enough to determine the actual performance of differing bat
models.
Instead of measuring the speed of the ball after
it is batted, BBCOR measures the "bounciness" of the ball and bat, or
the "trampoline" effect. When a bat hits a ball, the ball actually
compresses / deforms by nearly a third at high pitch velocities.
Bat
performance is specified by using the BBCOR, which for mathematicians
is calculated using the inbound and rebound speeds of the ball:
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