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Originally Posted by chazzycat
Haha, funny you should mention that...I did this experiment last year in BFF. All the other teams went heavy on contact, because we all knew already from PT19 that it's the best rating. Knowing this, and attempting to use the league normalization to my benefit, I went the other way and focused on power/eye rating from the get-go. Thinking I could mop up that whole bucket of normalized HRs, since no one else was really going for it.
It did work, in terms of hitting a lot of homers. I'll grant you that. But my team was nowhere near competitive. I was losing all my singles to the better contact hitters on all the other teams who prioritized CONTACT, leaving my power hitters with god-awful OBPs, even though I did prioritize EYE very highly. There were just never enough runners on base to make the HR strategy work at all.
So that was basically the best possible situation to make power work, and I still could not pull it off.
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Yeah but I think there would be a ton of home runs league wide if every team were stacked with beefy power hitters and also with crappy, low movement pitchers. Add in band box parks and you have a great test to see if the game limits home runs per league. That is the best possible situation in which to test whether or not normalization is a thing.