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Originally Posted by hfield007
It is why what I stick by what I said, sources are unreliable for ITP homers especially the farther you go back. The data just is not there. This was not something that always got marked in a box score or referenced in news articles.
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Ok, sure, I get that, and accept it. But we're still far better off incorporating the data we have and incrementally improving the game, than leaving it the way it is. Right now we know that somewhere between 20-50% of homers were ISTP in the deadball era, with the numbers depending on year and ballpark. We also know that in OOTP as it currently stands the numbers for all eras are something like 0.5%.
At the very least, giving us a park effect to set ISTP HR% is going to enable the game to be vastly more accurate in this area than it is today.