</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Do you recall your last suggestion to change all home team pitchers ratings so that they perform better at home? (I keep posting these stats since you've never responded to them and keep harping on statements indicating players perform better at home than on the road)
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Teams score fractionally more runs at home and fractionally fewer runs on the road per game. It doesn't matter how you do it; whether raising/lowering pitcher ratings or batter ratings or 'special events'.
At any rate, it all comes out in the wash. Over time, players will play a commensurate number of games at home and on the road. Provided the ratings are tweaked symmetrically, the statistical purity of the game remains unblemished. IOW, I don't think this skews the statistical results- long term.
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