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Originally Posted by DawnBTVS
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.
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What I do is I just grab the 3-year factors from seamheads.com. That being said, I like to play fictional/historical for a variety of reasons and one of them is that, well, the player database is not optimized for park factors. Yes, IRL Fenway in the 40s and the 50s was a great place for right-handed hitters and not so much for left-handed ones. However, Ted Williams gets a small *downgrade* to his stats if you bring him in from this era because the database *does* adjust for the overall park factor, and as a result he will probably underperform in your league. Likewise with Joe DiMaggio; although Yankee Stadium was on par a pitcher's park, Joltin' Joe as a righty had to deal with the cavernous Yankee Stadium left field and as a result IRL he hit 213 of his 361 career dingers on the road.
One thing that would be really, really cool is if someone went in and created a "season disk" the way, say, Strat-o-Matic does, with things being a bit more highly curated, the ratings algorithms tweaked to handle realistic park factors, and so on.