short and sweet - better corner OF (assuming CF at least decent and ootp mimicing RL factors that highly correlate to BABIP factor of a ballpark) and better pitching. Some pitch types in ootp are better for babip than others.. google that for a good idea. KB is one for certain.
Coors field is a dumpster fire. Not much you can do there. it'll always be higher. it's one of the worst fields for a high BABIP. It is a rising tide... you get same effect. Question is are your chances of winning better at a higher or lower babip given several different other coinciding factors, lol... no guarantee it is the same, but like getting upset about someone taking a bad hit at a blackjack table with upto 10 decks of cards ("stealing your card"), it's probably a very slim change of probability for you.
maybe more volatility with more offense? easier to get 'lucky' so lesser teams can go on runs even if it averages out over time.
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you can see where i found better info than what i initially perceived
the pitches your staff throws has an impact on BABIP. I'd wager it correlates as well as defense... i'd wager defense has severely diminishing returns above some minimum level of competence... whether that's ~average or something else...
at the top you start splitting hairs to differentiate... half a step slower in the outfield isn't going to amount to many different plays over 162 games. at some point it becomes more than negligible, of course. dynamics of assessing fielding... diminishing returns vs increasing offense that is only limited by payroll, availability and a willingness to play for your team. I wouldn't sacrifics many runs worrying about BABIP. (*probably wrong about the OF portion here*)
Also, look into why it is high... is it bad luck? is it an unusual amount of HR relative to other hits for the various player's histories on your team? was the league average high that year? asjust perception to that... etc etc...
hahah amazing what you find... i was at least half wrong about defense after a little superficial research. certainly can't rule it out, especially OF defense - likely more so at the corners than CF, unless you have a severely incompetent CF.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/babip-pa...ll-connection/
the correlation coefficient table clears up some thigns too... e.g. gb% has vurtually no correlation to BABIP -- i'd wager this throws a wrench into infield defense having much to do with babip. it's inversely related, albeit weakly, with FB%. How much of that is home runs and OF defense, i don't know... but this is where i'd wager defense is helping the most. Also biggest range of defender quality at positions that require the least (CF being different than the corners)
So, parks that are spacious and augment line drive hitter's production are likely to increase BABIP. I'm sure some funky designs can throw that on its head, too. Fenway is a circus attraction (ha, further into article they touch on it...), ffs. weak fly balls are home runs, wtf is that stupidity?
when you remove circus attractions and 'suspicious' data points, lol (groundskeepers? eneven data colection parameters?)... .872 correlation coefficient in the equation below for BABIP factor for a ballpark.
BABIP factor = 0.552*LD% + 0.320*GB% + 0.124*HR/FB
here's some real world coors field pitcher rankings, lol
2011 – .312 (29th)
2010 – .326 (30th)
2009 – .317 (29th)
2008 – .315 (29th)
2007 – .316 (26th)
2006 – .321 (28th)
2005 – .333 (30th)
2004 – .336 (30th)
2003 – .315 (t-30th)
2002 – .321 (30th)
>10% above league average in some years, i'd wager above average every year, which is pretty hard to do.