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Originally Posted by fredbeene
All parkpark is static. forget the players. its all about the design.
a 100 foot line will generate more more homers than 1000 foot line. (over the fence homers)
the modifers should be based solely on the ballpark..
WIDE fould lines gives more chanes for outs.
Everything else is random.
Only the build of park should effect.
Great defenese should have huge advantage in large park.
But it seems all we do is guess what the engine does, sadly
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This isn’t how baseball works. First up, the single highest correlation with offense isn’t wall distance or height or some algorithm based on the two but altitude. Period. Coors is one of the biggest stadia in the league and has consistently been by far the most hitter friendly. The stadium the Diamondbacks play in is also big and also allows a ton of homeruns.
Number two is climate, and only once you’ve drilled into climate does the size of the park become a thing. At that, if there’s a prevailing wind it can turn a park that dimension wise ought to have been average into a pitching heaven (see: the Big A). Sometimes the product a wall is built with produces more doubles and so on than the fact that it exists, as was the case with the Green Monster, which went from having a steel framework to being all padded or scoreboard in the 1970s. And then of course there’s the batter’s eye, which is more we’ll maintained now than it used to but which still can vary a bit.
Many times the actual dimensions of a park are the least interesting thing about it in terms of how baseball is played in it.