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RonCo · 08-11-2006, 01:31 PM

Stadium dimensions are meaningless, though as the manual says, a low fence will result in some fly outs being "saved home runs" and long or short fences will change the sugar-coating of the play-by-play to result in longer or shorter HR travel distances. The number of HR/2B/3B etc. will not be influenced at all by the dimensions of a ballpark--and, as you mentioned, the created versions will often be fundamentally improbable.

This springs, again, from starting with a poor model and then trying to make it do more than it was designed for.

I note, that some people like this approach because, for example, they think it allows them to base a league on the moon and get "accurate" 900 foot HRs. Despite the fact that this assumption is not correct, I'll give them their argument...but I note that a model that would fit everyone's needs would be one that determined fly ball distance based on a single point of reference (say sea level at 80 deg F on a windless day), then allowed modification for gravity (or altitude).

08-11-2006, 01:31 PM	#9
RonCo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 10,502	Stadium dimensions are meaningless, though as the manual says, a low fence will result in some fly outs being "saved home runs" and long or short fences will change the sugar-coating of the play-by-play to result in longer or shorter HR travel distances. The number of HR/2B/3B etc. will not be influenced at all by the dimensions of a ballpark--and, as you mentioned, the created versions will often be fundamentally improbable. This springs, again, from starting with a poor model and then trying to make it do more than it was designed for. I note, that some people like this approach because, for example, they think it allows them to base a league on the moon and get "accurate" 900 foot HRs. Despite the fact that this assumption is not correct, I'll give them their argument...but I note that a model that would fit everyone's needs would be one that determined fly ball distance based on a single point of reference (say sea level at 80 deg F on a windless day), then allowed modification for gravity (or altitude). Last edited by RonCo; 08-11-2006 at 02:52 PM.