Posted by: RH () on Thu Feb 6 07:26:41 2003

Thanks again Teacherman. Your scarcasm adds nothing to the discussion.

Johnny, you have asked a very complex question. Distance of a softball depends on MANY factors, including:
- bat speed
- pitched ball speed
- ball compression
- ball COR
- bat construction (wood, alloy, composite)
- bat "pop" (flexibility, trampoline effect, etc)
- weather (affects ball compression)
- spin imparted to the ball (backspin creates lift - more lift=more distance)

I have seen a (outlawed) Titanium bat hit a slow-pitched high compression ball over 400 ft.

These two links are geared towards baseball, but they may be of some help. Keep in mind that the variables of ball compression and COR and multi-wall and composite bats in softball make it much more complex an equation than wood bats in MLB.

http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/
http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/Parkland/sld001.htm