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voxpoptart · 06-09-2015, 06:59 PM

Nice! I particularly like 6, 8, and 15. That said, I use the "Silver Slugger" right now as my year-end All-Star team (and call it "All-Star" instead of "Silver Slugger"), and that's a good temporary fix. I also do backup All-Stars on the year-end team, but I don't mind editing those into the Player History pages, unless there's a demand for that feature.

In terms of Park Factors, one caution: Matt Arnold says the game tries to factor park effects into the WAR calculations, but I can tell you from experience that it doesn't -- or does it poorly. I worked out all the park factors in my game doing the math myself (I teach math, I'm a nerd), including the fact that each player only plays half his games at home. And whenever I calculate WAR myself, using the Runs Created data the game supplies, all the batters from the hitters' parks have been overrated by the game, and all the batters from the pitchers' parks have been underrated, sometimes by 20 runs.

06-09-2015, 06:59 PM	#4
voxpoptart Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 387	Nice! I particularly like 6, 8, and 15. That said, I use the "Silver Slugger" right now as my year-end All-Star team (and call it "All-Star" instead of "Silver Slugger"), and that's a good temporary fix. I also do backup All-Stars on the year-end team, but I don't mind editing those into the Player History pages, unless there's a demand for that feature. In terms of Park Factors, one caution: Matt Arnold says the game tries to factor park effects into the WAR calculations, but I can tell you from experience that it doesn't -- or does it poorly. I worked out all the park factors in my game doing the math myself (I teach math, I'm a nerd), including the fact that each player only plays half his games at home. And whenever I calculate WAR myself, using the Runs Created data the game supplies, all the batters from the hitters' parks have been overrated by the game, and all the batters from the pitchers' parks have been underrated, sometimes by 20 runs.