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Charlie Hough · 05-28-2010, 05:04 PM

Maybe this would help. The park factors do not equate to actual percentage adjustments in OOTP. That is not how they are used. I don't profess to know exactly how the formulae work, but I know that a HR factor of 1.200 does NOT mean that there will be 20% more home runs hit in that ballpark. And likewise a batting average factor of .900 does not mean that batters will hit for a 10% lower average.

This may be the source of the confusion and protest. So I want to caution anyone NOT to try and create new formulae or new park factors based on percentage adjustments. You will probably not get the desired results because OOTP does not use these factors that way. So whoever developed the original spreadsheet that Gambo used had probably developed the park factors according to how OOTP implements them and not the way people are thinking in this thread.

I would recommend some discussion with Markus to clear this up.

05-28-2010, 05:04 PM	#15
Charlie Hough Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,640	Maybe this would help. The park factors do not equate to actual percentage adjustments in OOTP. That is not how they are used. I don't profess to know exactly how the formulae work, but I know that a HR factor of 1.200 does NOT mean that there will be 20% more home runs hit in that ballpark. And likewise a batting average factor of .900 does not mean that batters will hit for a 10% lower average. This may be the source of the confusion and protest. So I want to caution anyone NOT to try and create new formulae or new park factors based on percentage adjustments. You will probably not get the desired results because OOTP does not use these factors that way. So whoever developed the original spreadsheet that Gambo used had probably developed the park factors according to how OOTP implements them and not the way people are thinking in this thread. I would recommend some discussion with Markus to clear this up. Last edited by Charlie Hough; 05-28-2010 at 05:07 PM.