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Originally Posted by One Post Wonder
Real life teams adjust their parks to suit their personnel, so I don't see a problem with it.
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Unlike in PT, in real life there are constraints on the personnel you can put on the field day in and day out. Players have salaries and contracts, can only play for one team at a time, get injured, get older, and retire. So any advantage gained by modifying the park is likely to be limited and short-lived.
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Originally Posted by One Post Wonder
I've always believed that modifying your team to fit a weird stadium pushes you closer to 81-81 as opposed to closer to a championship. It's good if your team is bad, but a hinderance if you've got a .600, .650 team. I've got a couple of those guys in my division this year, and I'm interested to see how they do when they don't have a talent advantage over their competition.
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Let's assume that all teams in a league are equal in talent. Under normal circumstances, they'd be expected to play each other to a .500 draw. Now assume that one of the teams has an extreme ballpark and lineup. Suppose that the ballpark advantage allows them to win 66% of their home games. On the road, they can switch to a less extreme lineup and still win close to 50% of their games (because all the other teams are using "fair" ballparks). Clearly, if the other teams in the league don't counter that strategy, the extreme team always comes out on top. So this strategy forces everyone else to do the same in order to compete.