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Originally Posted by italyprof
To be honest I am not advanced enough to know how to answer your question.
What you are saying is that there is NO Park Effect in OOTP in historical leagues, so only the historical year's overall run environment is present?
That is disappointing if so, and renders my getting left hand hitters for the old Yankee Stadium somewhat symbolic only.
However, I can understand why that would be - Babe Ruth, or Henry Aaron hit in particular environments to rack up their career stats. Put THOSE actual lifetime stats in that same ballpark effect and you are doubling down on one of the factors that produced the original result. So you would actually have a less, not a more, realistic career for Ruth or Aaron or anyone else.
Maybe Marcus or Lukas (spelling? sorry, I am tired today from extra-long days at work this week) can clarify this for us.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
OOTP Example: 1949 Red Sox has Fenway Park at 1.128 for BA and HR (league started in 1948). Yankee Stadium for comparison is set at 0.930 for BA and HR.
But everybody knows the disparity between the two ballparks in real life e.g. trading DiMaggio for Williams and why the "opposite" park would've aided them each more. I'd even be grateful if the OOTP team could just do a "general" park factor adjusting for the fence distances/wall heights rather than needing to be 100% legitimate if it meant closely mimicking the real life park effects. Otherwise it's pointless to have "park factors" if it's just deciding which park is more advantageous to runs ignoring XBH or HR or LH/RH hitting.
Example: Fenway Park RH due to the Green Monster becomes 1.158 for Doubles and 1.070 for RH HR but due to the distance/configuration it makes LH HR just a 0.959 or whatever without trying to factor in the actual player stats and just judging based on distance/wall height.