What's up with Park Factors? - Page 2

Reed · 07-07-2019, 09:18 AM

LTMs pretty much control everything. For example if you set the park factor for every team for home runs to .800 but leave the LTMs unchanged, then league total HRs will be comparable to the totals in real life, not 80%.
If you have a player like Todd Helton who played for Colorado in real life. Coors park factor in real life probably accounted for 3 or 4 extra HRs a year. If his home team in OOTP is Coors field, he will essentially have a double park factor boost and hit 6-8 more home runs than at a neutral park. Since league totals will be the same, those extra home runs by Helton come at the expense of someone else.

MBarrett · 07-09-2019, 09:10 AM

Would really like to get an answer on this. Some of the parks have their old factors (Fenway, Yankee, etc.) so we need to know if this was simply missed or it was an intentional change from prior versions.

t-bone shuffle · 07-09-2019, 11:49 AM

For those who think Ballpark Factors don't matter, I present to you Mr. Leon Green of the Centex Express. Leon plays his home games at the Alamodome where the LH HR factor sits (and has since 2014 Expansion) at 1.57. He's been exceptional. Unfortunately the game cant provide career Home/Road hitting stats. But it should be noted that next closest in 2035 HR's was 51.

1991Twins · 03-29-2020, 04:52 PM

Bump for this thread. I was wondering if Garlon had updated the file era_ballparks_discreteStadiumsMod_2018.txt with stats from the 2019 season to be used in OOTP 21. I loved the atmosphere that the parks created when I used this file last year. The parks felt way more true to life. If possible, I would enjoy if an update could be posted. Thanks again Garlon!!!

Garlon · 04-04-2020, 12:51 PM

For a while I was working on another project, Baseball Greats. Baseball Greats is now available on the OOTP20 Steam Workshop.

The ballparks mod needs to be updated with the factors for 2019, but I was also hoping to fix some small issues with the ballparks too. For example, the diagrams for the broadcast mode do not have the coordinates in the proper places and apparently some stadiums need to be updates for OOTP21 because of some textures that OOTP21 no longer will use.

1991Twins · 04-12-2020, 10:06 PM

Huge fan of your work. Hopeful that you do add in the 2019 factors because the project was a game changer for me. Really added flavor and character to each park.

Garlon · 04-17-2020, 09:47 AM

The new era_ballparks file for OOTP21, an era_stats file that will replace the 1942-1945 league totals with the average of 1938-1941 and 1946-1949 if you play without players missing those seasons, and a weather file set to 70 degrees and no wind as well. Remember to make copies of the original files before you replace them with these.

07-09-2019, 11:49 AM	#23
t-bone shuffle All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The dull edge of the blade Posts: 867	For those who think Ballpark Factors don't matter, I present to you Mr. Leon Green of the Centex Express. Leon plays his home games at the Alamodome where the LH HR factor sits (and has since 2014 Expansion) at 1.57. He's been exceptional. Unfortunately the game cant provide career Home/Road hitting stats. But it should be noted that next closest in 2035 HR's was 51. Attached Images

07-07-2019, 09:18 AM	#21
Reed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,337	LTMs pretty much control everything. For example if you set the park factor for every team for home runs to .800 but leave the LTMs unchanged, then league total HRs will be comparable to the totals in real life, not 80%. If you have a player like Todd Helton who played for Colorado in real life. Coors park factor in real life probably accounted for 3 or 4 extra HRs a year. If his home team in OOTP is Coors field, he will essentially have a double park factor boost and hit 6-8 more home runs than at a neutral park. Since league totals will be the same, those extra home runs by Helton come at the expense of someone else.

07-09-2019, 09:10 AM	#22
MBarrett All Star Reserve Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Canada Posts: 627	Would really like to get an answer on this. Some of the parks have their old factors (Fenway, Yankee, etc.) so we need to know if this was simply missed or it was an intentional change from prior versions.

03-29-2020, 04:52 PM	#24
1991Twins Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 494	Bump for this thread. I was wondering if Garlon had updated the file era_ballparks_discreteStadiumsMod_2018.txt with stats from the 2019 season to be used in OOTP 21. I loved the atmosphere that the parks created when I used this file last year. The parks felt way more true to life. If possible, I would enjoy if an update could be posted. Thanks again Garlon!!!

04-04-2020, 12:51 PM	#25
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,158	For a while I was working on another project, Baseball Greats. Baseball Greats is now available on the OOTP20 Steam Workshop. The ballparks mod needs to be updated with the factors for 2019, but I was also hoping to fix some small issues with the ballparks too. For example, the diagrams for the broadcast mode do not have the coordinates in the proper places and apparently some stadiums need to be updates for OOTP21 because of some textures that OOTP21 no longer will use.

04-12-2020, 10:06 PM	#26
1991Twins Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 494	Huge fan of your work. Hopeful that you do add in the 2019 factors because the project was a game changer for me. Really added flavor and character to each park.