H (Hits)
A hit is any batted ball that lets the batter reach base safely without an error or a fielder’s choice. It is the most basic unit of offense and the input to batting average.
Totalling hits treats a bloop single and a 430-foot home run as the same event, which is the reason batting average has lost ground to OBP and SLG. It also ignores walks entirely — a hitter who reaches base 100 times on walks gets no credit in a hit column.
NUT keeps the information and drops the flattening. Every hit type gets its own run value inside wOBA, walks are counted at their real worth, and the result is one number that says how much offense a player produced rather than how many times he happened to reach on a batted ball.
What is a good H?
NUT counts hits by type, not by total. wOBA gives a double more credit than a single and a home run more than a double, so two hitters with the same hit count can grade very differently.
How NUT Score works →