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[Vantage_Cricket]

My view is that if you're using your bat in a game, it's a lot different from using a bowling machine in the nets (which I guess where these are tested?) - so I believe their are a lot of variables as you do not hit the same ball with the same shot in the same place of the bat.

[crictech]

my view is that if you can rebuild a golf swing, like Nick Faldo did, you can change the way you bat, thus you change the individual optimal middle position on the bat.
I also suggest that this would take ages and isn't worth the time in most cases. this is different to Yash's suggestion which implies you can adapt depending on the bat you use, which I don't agree with.

Buzz I may have misinterpreted what you meant by "mid-low middle bats are the most popular because that is where most people are used to having the middle of their bat and their game adapts accordingly".

I agree that if you change your technique the optimum sweet spot position may change. From what I've seen it doesn't work in reverse. If you get a bat with the sweet spot positioned away from where you naturally strike the ball you don't adapt your technique to suit the bat.