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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
The Tattersoll-McConnell Home Run Log is now available to SABR members on their web site. I don't have my login info here at work, but when I get home I'll check it out. It may have inside-the-park homer data, which could be used for historical park effects and ITPH frequency over time.
This link has a list of leaders in inside the park homers. Just glancing at Cobb, Tommy Leach, and Sam Crawford, it looks like many players in the deadball era hit half or more of their homers inside the park. So OOTP gets something like 30%-50% of their homers wrong by assuming they left the field. |
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Originally Posted by Simmo13
Perhaps we should also have deadball PBP which allows for "bounce" homers which counted until the twenties in both leagues I think.
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My understanding was that during the deadball era, which in this case includes 1871-1920, about 45% of all home runs never left the park. This includes an era in which many (or most) parks had either no fences or incomplete ones.
Simmo's post reminds me that the definition of what constitutes a homer — as well as what constitutes 'inside the park' — can change with time and further complicate the calculation. I'm led to believe, though, that the number of ITP homers should rise as the number hit out falls, thereby acting as a mitigating factor. ctorg, I'm wondering if this could be happening in your extreme park, but the play-by-play isn't reflecting it due to its own hardcoding?