GUIDE · Hit streak
What a hit streak means
A hit streak counts how many consecutive games with at least one hit a hitter has strung together, working backwards from the most recent game. It's the classic MLB hit-streak concept applied to KBO, and is one of the simplest reads on a hitter's current form.
How Streak Monster counts a streak
- Start from the latest game date, walk backwards.
- Only count played games (games with at least one plate appearance or batter record).
- Played with ≥1 hit: increment the streak by 1.
- Played with no hits: the streak ends here.
- Absences (not played) neither break nor extend the streak. They're skipped and the next played game is evaluated as if it were the next in the sequence.
Why this method?
We want the streak to reflect current bat form without noise. Counting a rest day as a break would unfairly penalize healthy hitters with lineup rotation, while counting an absence as "still active" would over-credit players returning from injury. Played-games-only is the honest middle.
How are inactive hitters shown?
Hitters who have missed 2+ of their team's recent games get a "Benched N g" badge. Hitters missing 3+ team games are moved to a dimmed "Paused" section on their team page and are excluded from the home feed's "hot hitters" list. The streak number itself is never altered — transparency is preserved via visual hierarchy.
Related
- 20-cell hit dial: per-game Hit / No-hit / Not-played in one row. Source of the streak.
- Lineup regularity: how often a hitter actually starts.