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Originally Posted by Garlon
The spreadsheet that you see that generates park factors is just something someone made up.
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That's quite dismissive. It appears to me some thought went into it along with some reasonably supportable calculations and formulas.
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The real events are the true park factors.
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Depends. Clearly they represent what WAS. but the next question is does "what was" hit the center of the bell curve on possible outcomes. I don't see how it could be argued that a factor over 2 something on the Giants mentioned earlier does.
But with neutralized stats I supposed that will work out OK if its a completely historical games with all players on their historical teams. Lots of people don't play that way.
So start putting players who weren't Giants in that ballpark will, I think, give results that can't be defended as realistic.
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There are no absolute park factors for any stadium.
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I understand that. But that's not a valid objection to a well made calculator. As long as the parks are comparatively realistic the season totals feature makes it right.