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Originally Posted by RchW
One must also consider that talent distribution in OOTP, both solo and online leagues is not likely to be the same as real life. So even if there is a home field advantage built in, loaded teams and woeful teams may skew the results.
It's my impression that talent distribution may explain several discrepancies we see in OOTP. Not sure how that can be avoided.
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That should have no effect on home field advantage; if you are a terrible team, you should be a little less terrible at home and awesome teams will be more awesome at home......season to season discrepancy in home vs road records will occur naturally due to the small sample size of 81 games, but if you sample very large numbers of teams and seasons, you should see what the actual effects of home field advantage are in the game......I don't know how Markus programmed this in and the method would determine if there is a skew of the results.....say if all teams get a 5 point boost to their batting averages at home, then teams with low averages should have a larger home/road differential in their W/L records over the long haul, since the 5 points would represent a large percentage increase for them than teams with high batting averages.....though, if it's programmed to be a boost by percentage, then all classes of teams should show virtually the same difference in Home/Road wins and losses.....though, even if their is a skew, it will be very small, as 5 points of average is nearly the same percentage for bad teams as good teams.....