X Factor Technology's
Free App Bundle Overview

Coming April 2025 to both Android and iOS, this free app bundle serves as an introduction to X Factor Technology and the broader xFactor Hitting System ecosystem. It marks a deliberate shift away from conventional, mechanic-focused perspectives and toward objective, time-based analysis that reflects how hitters actually succeed.

The app features more advanced, portable versions of many popular calculators that have been available on this site over the years—now streamlined, modernized, and built to work seamlessly together. Each tool in the bundle isolates a core temporal element of hitting: from pitch travel time to barrel arrival timing to flight distance projection. The bundle is designed for hitters and coaches who want precision, not opinion.

Included:

  • Pitch Speed Over Distance Calculator
    • Ball Flight Distance Calculator
    • Pitch Velocity to All 25 Calculator
    • Swing Time to All 25 Calculator
    • Tempo Trainer Timing Simulator Lite

These tools are measurement and simulation systems that help define the timing realities of the game—foundational components for more advanced xFactor systems like Swing Dynamics Pro™, the Swing Alert™ System, and our Predictive Modeling Program.

Pitch Speed Over
Distance Calculator

This tool calculates average pitch speed and time to contact over a user-defined distance, accounting for pitch deceleration. It also outputs an MLB Equivalent — the velocity that would yield the same time-to-contact from a typical MLB release distance (~55 ft). Unlike radar guns that capture peak velocity at release, this app shows what matters: the time and speed the hitter actually experiences.

Use cases:

• Quantifying time-to-contact for pitch speeds thrown from reduced distances

• Translating radar gun readings into realistic batter reaction times

• Batting cage work: simulating full-distance velocities (e.g., 90 mph) in shortened cages

• Setting up pitching machines to match game-speed time-to-contact over altered distances

• Extrapolating youth release distances and velocities to MLB equivalents

 

Ball Flight Distance Calculator

This calculator estimates projected ball flight distance using launch angle, exit velocity, hit direction, and the exact pitch location selected from a 25-zone strike zone grid. Unlike basic distance estimators, it accounts for drag, ball spin, angle-specific efficiency, and contact point variation—producing more realistic projections across pitch types and locations. This is a user-friendly variation of Professor Alan Nathan’s Ball Flight Distance Calculator, enhanced with updated contact depth variations for more practical, zone-specific outcomes.

Use cases:

  • Projecting expected flight distance for given exit velocity and launch angle combinations

    • Evaluating the impact of contact point and pitch location on projected batted ball distance
    • Comparing swing outcomes across different pitch zones to identify sweet spots or weak areas

    • Understanding how pitch location affects distance, even with identical exit velocity and launch angle (e.g., outer half contact results in reduced carry)

    • Scouting tool for grading power output and batted ball carry across multiple swing zones

    • Coaching aid to guide hitters toward optimizing swing decisions based on location-driven outcomes

    • Linking swing time data to distance outcomes for fully contextualized performance analysis
Pitch Velocity to All 25 Locations Calculator

This tool calculates the time to contact and average pitch velocity for each of the 25 standardized strike zone locations based on user-input pitch speed and distance. Unlike basic calculations that assume a single, linear trajectory, it accounts for horizontal pitch travel and the three-dimensional geometry of the strike zone.

The outputs reflect the actual distance the ball travels to reach each point in the zone—factoring in additional distance to reach outside and lower locations—which results in longer time-to-contact and slightly reduced average velocities in those areas compared to inside pitches.

Unlike radar guns, which capture a single release-point velocity snapshot, this calculator extrapolates time and average velocity over distance. It better reflects perceived and effective velocities as experienced by the batter, delivering meaningful temporal information that can be applied directly to timing work.

Use cases:

  • Converting a single pitch speed into precise time-to-contact values for each of the 25 zone locations
  • Showing how pitch location influences perceived and effective velocity
  • Teaching hitters that not all pitches arrive equally across the strike zone
  • Building a complete temporal map of pitch behavior across the strike zone
Swing Time to All 25
Location Calculator

This tool maps swing time across all 25 strike zone locations based on a single user-input swing time, gathered from third-party swing capture tools such as Blast Motion or Diamond Kinetics. It accounts for the 3D nature of the hitting zone by adjusting time values relative to contact depth and lateral position. The result is a complete spatial-temporal profile of the swing arc that reflects when the barrel arrives at each specific location in the zone.

This is a lite version of the Swing Dynamics Pro™ system. It does not capture swing data. It simply processes an inputted value to produce location-specific swing times. The full Swing Dynamics Pro™ version captures real swing metrics directly and uses those proprietary values across other programs in the xFactor Hitting System.

Use cases:

  • Creating a complete swing time profile across the entire strike zone
  • Identifying how barrel arrival time varies by depth and lateral pitch location
  • Training hitters to understand how spatial location affects timing precision
  • Supporting comparative analysis of swing efficiency or adjustability by location
  • Highlighting mechanical vulnerabilities across pitch locations based on swing duration
  • Providing foundational timing data for use in systems like Swing Dynamics Pro™ or predictive modeling tools
Tempo Trainer Timing
Simulator Lite

This app is a simplified version of the full xFactor Tempo Trainer, designed to bring real-world urgency and time constraint into tee work. Traditional tee training lets hitters swing at will, which fails to simulate game conditions. This tool replaces convenience-based reps with calculated timing structures.

The app simulates pitch arrival using real-world velocities and a captured stride time, generating a five-pitch sequence at varying speeds. Stride timing is captured during setup and used to trigger a Stride Alert followed by a Swing Alert™, each timed to match actual time-to-contact based on pitch velocity and distance. The result is a realistic temporal window that mirrors live pitching.

It serves as a structured and more advanced version of the common “go” or “command” drill, replacing subjective cues with precise, data-driven timing signals.

The full version, available soon as part of the xFactor Swing Dynamics Pro™, captures and stores individualized swing data across sessions. It tracks mechanical swing time, Swing Delay™, Time to Impact (TTI), Vertical Bat Angle (VBA), Horizontal Bat Angle (HBA), and Attack Angle (AA). Unlike other systems, it measures total swing execution time, maps swing timing to all 25 strike zone locations, and isolates reaction-based delays from mechanical execution.

Use cases:

  • Introducing realistic urgency into batting tee work without live pitching
  • Training hitters to operate under varied timing windows across a range of pitch velocities
  • Allowing coaches to condition players to start their swing based on time-constrained sequences
  • Replicating simulated pitch delivery for timing calibration using captured stride data
  • Structuring at-bats for rhythm and tempo consistency across different pitch speeds
  • Training tempo and load consistency by forcing synchronized movement within predefined timing