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Originally Posted by akw4572
I think the Reds are a good example, and I've thought about this as well. GABP used to be thought of as strictly hitter launching pad. Depending on what metric you use, that has changed to varying degrees. Is it a product of better pitcher, or worse hitting? OR both? It's a great question, but I tend to think the Reds pitching has gotten a lot better.
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My understanding of real life ball park factors is that similar to what are saying, they can be slightly under/over-inflated depending on what kind of team is built.
While I agree with you that the Reds pitching has gotten better, it cannot physically change the actual real-life park factor of GABP. Because of the volatility you mention, it can be tough to say what a ballpark is on paper though except for a few obvious ones(Coors field) or something like the Wrigley where they have decades of data to track what happened there. I was talking more about in-game strategy though.
In OOTP, there is a park factor that does not change over time. From my understanding of how that works(please correct me if I'm wrong), say it calculates the ball was hit 400 ft, then if you had a HR park factor of .9, it would make the ball travel 360 ft. I know that is not EXACTLY how it works, but basically, it calculates the result, then modifies that result slightly based on a teams ballpark.
My question is since that happens to every type of batter(good or bad), and every type of pitcher, why does it matter in OOTP which team you build. I'm talking about how most teams have to build here. I know the Yankees can buy and keep the best of everything, but say you are a smaller market team and you had a slugger's park. Wouldn't a viable strategy be to go against conventional wisdom and get a good pitching staff that could keep HR in the park, and then your mediocre hitters would also have slightly better batting numbers at home.
Isn't it all the same difference? Has anybody tried something like this, or maybe someone can point out a flaw in my logic there that I haven't thought of.