[quote]Originally posted by Peter Bergstrom:
<strong>For what it's worth, Diamond Mind Baseball models Home Field Advantage.
Face it, men, we need it!</strong><hr></blockquote>
For what? The game produces realistic enough stats, and win loss records? Why introduce an artificial, and potentially results skewing (for individual players) rating for the sake of two fairly insignificant win - loss splits? To me this really isn't necessary.
And even if it was necessary how do you measure and introduce this rating. (Adjusting the pitchers doesn't seem appropriate) Last year Boston, Toronto, Baltimore, Cleveland, Seattle, Anaheim, Atlanta, Houston, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and San Diego all did better on the road, than they did at home. Does this mean these teams need negative adjustments to their "home field advantage" factor just to offset the gains they showed on the road.
Heck Atlanta made the playoffs without even winning half of their home games, so just how significant is the home field advantage in the major leagues, if you can make the playoffs without winning the majority of their own home games.
In the end all the stats balance out and are fairly good without this artificial factor.
Edit - This reminds me of what my mother used to say: If Diamond Mind Baseball jumped off a bridge would you?
[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: ScottVib ]</p>