</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Peter Bergstrom:
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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.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That depends on your definition of long term... in the stats I presented above some players still have statistically significant differences after 3 years of stats.... at the very least altering ratings in that fashion would impact players year to year stats in a significant enough way to impact results....
That is why I'd stay away from altering ratings and towards a more subtle impact caused by the stadium... as this is where the major source of the home field advantage lies in baseball..
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