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Originally Posted by statfreak
My enjoyment of the game will be drastically reduced if OOTP does in fact begin having the home team win ~54% of the time since that would most likely mean the game results are forced and fixed and nothing I do as a user affects the outcome.
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No, that's only the overall average which includes all teams. A better way of looking at it is the spread between home winning percentage and away winning percentage, as the chart I posted above shows. A last place team in the NL finished on average with a .3975 home winning percentage and a .3108 away winning percentage, for example.
The fact remains that if OOTP shows results over a period of many decades where only 50% or so of teams are finishing the season with a better home record than away record, then those results are NOT realistic. It's strange to me why many folks would demand exacting accuracy when it comes to individual player statistics and yet allow an anomaly that large in team results to remain unchanged.