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Originally Posted by QuantaCondor
It got even more extreme after you left it, as well. Last season 11/30 teams were lefty teams, and I think that's a decrease from a couple weeks ago.
So, definitely, I do not recommend just plucking park settings from someone and assuming it will work. I think the big takeaway is that you really just need a coherent strategy to score runs and prevent runs. Anybody whose team is built well around a particular strategy seems to have success.
EDIT: Also, as an interesting note, we recently had an OL team which got misplaced into a generic Perfect League after promotion from Diamond. That team made the playoffs in their random Perfect league. Then, upon re-entry to the Perfect OL League, they went 60-102 (or something like that) and were instantly demoted back to Diamond. I don't think the rostered players in OL are anywhere near the quality of an average random playoff team in Perfect, but nearly every regular player in Perfect OL has a refined strategy. It just goes to show that, except for some obvious extreme cases, park factors are much more important than player quality. Even the lone Perfect Big Walt that is in the league hasn't had the ERA crown in 4 years.
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That team in question is the Blitzkrieg Boppers. We favor a neutral park approach with an emphasis on keeping home runs to a minimum, so against all the other strategies it may have been easy to see why we thrived in a normal perfect league, then got smacked around in the OL/NFTP league.
We're hoping to make our way back to perfect at the first time of asking. Pulling 99 Jackie Robinson on Sunday really helps our cause.
