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Originally Posted by ctorg
Actually, Markus has said that players imported from Lahman have their stats adjusted up or down for park factors, so guys who played in hitter's parks would have their batting ratings reduced and vice versa, so it's not too too bad.
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Park Factors can be broken down into 8 different categories: AVG Overall, AVG LHB, AVG RHB, Doubles, Triples, HR Overall, HR LHB, HR RHB. The Lahman import assigns the same Park Factor to each of the 8 categories. If we were able to input the specific Park Factors for each category, wouldn't we likely get more accurate stats? (For example, County Stadium in 1982 had a Park Factor of 94. However, the PF for HR Overall was 74. That seems like a significant difference to me.)