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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei
What other factors besides tailoring are there, LGO? Better familiarity with the field? Sleeping at home? Travel fatigue? Regular eating habits? Less carousing? The cheers of the home crowd?
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
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Given that the statistical differences are negligible,
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They're not.
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the major factor has to be how much the team is tailored to the field -
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An assertion, not a fact.
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How this translates to OOTP: a better GM AI which will tailor a team to its home field will replicate home historical field advantage.
This is based on the anecdotal evidence in Montoya's post above, where humans doing just that in OOTP may or may not have matched the actual home field advantage rate in the MLB.
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Fixed that for you. You may believe certain things. They are not empirically supported and talking about them as facts gives your argument LESS weight.