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Garlon · 03-31-2019, 04:21 PM

There are 2896 parks in the file. It is too much work to do this project over again even if new data was available. I had made a file once that used the actual 2B/3B/HR values from the retrosheet data. At the time I did that the data for that stuff went to about 1920. I think that they have some additional years now. One problem with using the discrete data for the HR factors is when you get into eras when there were very few HRs in the league. You start to get very big or small values and you are not really measuring anything about the park but rather just seeing the effect of randomness. I ultimately did not like how the file played with the game. I may have a copy of it somewhere, but I don't think it is worth using.

03-31-2019, 04:21 PM	#9
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,301	There are 2896 parks in the file. It is too much work to do this project over again even if new data was available. I had made a file once that used the actual 2B/3B/HR values from the retrosheet data. At the time I did that the data for that stuff went to about 1920. I think that they have some additional years now. One problem with using the discrete data for the HR factors is when you get into eras when there were very few HRs in the league. You start to get very big or small values and you are not really measuring anything about the park but rather just seeing the effect of randomness. I ultimately did not like how the file played with the game. I may have a copy of it somewhere, but I don't think it is worth using.