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Originally Posted by professor ape
The best counter to the lefty cheese is to have lefty starters to throw at them. I have Eppa and Vida in my rotation at this time and have others like Johan, Glavine, and others available of I happen to catch an upcoming cheese series.
There have been a lot of conversations about how to limit this cheese strategy. I have been in favor of limiting the nerfing of stadiums but many have made strong arguments noting that there are many real parks with AVG and HR more extreme than the .900 to 1.100 limits in the game. I have revised my thoughts on this. My current thought is that I am fine with expanding the range somewhat but place a limit that the lefty/righty splits for the two categories cannot be more than .100 apart. Using the current ranges, if you set the AVG vR to 1.100 then the lowest you could set the AVG vL would be 1.000. If you set vR HR at .900 then the highest you could set HR vR would be 1.000. I think this could help the issue.
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Throwing lefties at them is effectively cheesing them back, which is about the only thing you can do right now. This isn't really a counter at all, just evening the odds as best as possible by participating.
I think generic RHB or LHB settings don't make any sense at all. How could you possibly control that? A guy like Joe Mauer's spray charts show someone who hits to the opposite field (left field for him, a lefty) more often than pulling the ball, but he would still be subjected to park factor LHB suppression. How do you make only left handed hitters hit worse? Dig a 2 foot hole in the lefty batters box? Longer fence distance or fence height, etc make sense but only if someone hits the ball to that side, otherwise how do you differentiate between a lefty opposite field hitter and a righty pull hitter with park factors? It is pretty dumb if you think about it.