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Originally Posted by italyprof
DawnVTBS is saying that the effects take now account of whether batters are RH or LH, which obviously in parks like Yankee Stadium and Fenway matter a great deal. It probably isn't possible to change that, but in your example being RH is taken into account but it is not in fact in the game, only the overall effect for all batters regardless of LH or RH. So if you play in Fenway or Yankee with your team as home field, it is pointless to get a lot of left hand or right hand hitters, though in RL this would matter a great deal to you.
Again, I understand Garlon's point - it is a LOT of work already to have included park effects, so including the handedness of batters would require a mountain of research using data that we may not even have available yet. But that is the point being made.
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Pretty much this.
I love the immersion of OOTP and appreciate Garlon's hard work. But I do sometimes find immersion tougher when a ballpark doesn't quite reflect the pro or con of acquiring a specific talent based on which side they hit from.
An interesting example would be Babe Ruth. People don't realize how advantageous Yankee Stadium was for Ruth as a LH hitter:
http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/Y...dium.html#diag take a look at the 1928 image and RF is only 350, the line is just 295(!) To mentally picture that, the Green Monster is anywhere from 305 to 310 feet away.
http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/S...Park.html#diag Sportsman's Park was a notoriously favorable hitter's park for extra bases and the deep fences for RH hitters was a reason why Rogers Hornsby had so many doubles and triples.
With a general BA or HR factor for both sides, as a GM or even a Manager, you kind of lose that 'ballpark' uniqueness. If you were playing at Dodger Stadium and transplanted Mike Piazza to say Comiskey Park, you'd have a reasonable expectation that Piazza could top 40+ HR a year given the splits from
https://legacy.baseballprospectus.co...hp?cid=1852061 even over a 3 year average.