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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
- Inside the park home runs have been tweaked so that ballpark dimensions have a much bigger effect
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Park dimensions are officially becoming meaningful
What will I see, though, if I historically simmed from the dead ball era into the 1920s and beyond? Even parks that had few changes to their dimensions during their lifespans (Forbes Field), no changes (Sportsman's Park III) or got BIGGER (Polo Grounds post-1923) still had their inside-the-park homer rates plummet in the 1910s-early '20s and continue to steadily decline into the '50s.