Inside the park homers

pitch62 · 03-28-2019, 02:45 AM

Anyone know how to cut back on inside the park homers? I'm averaging at least one a game and sometimes two to three a game.

BirdWatcher · 03-28-2019, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by pitch62

Anyone know how to cut back on inside the park homers? I'm averaging at least one a game and sometimes two to three a game.

Holy crap, that's crazy. (Sorry, I don't know how to fix this, but something is definitely broken if this is happening to you.) I've had seasons where I see my team do this a few times during the season- and that's with total speedsters with good gap power- but one a game and sometimes multiples a game, yeah, that should not be happening.

Matt Arnold · 03-28-2019, 10:28 AM

What league year are you playing, and what are your park dimensions? The larger the parks, the bigger a chance of itp HR.

TomVeal · 03-28-2019, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

What league year are you playing, and what are your park dimensions? The larger the parks, the bigger a chance of itp HR.

I'd been under the impression that park dimensions were purely cosmetic. Would two parks with the same park factors but greatly different fence distances produce different results in OOTP, as they obviously would in real life?

Reed · 03-28-2019, 12:42 PM

Good question, does park dimensions play a factor in determining in the park or out of the park home run?

pitch62 · 03-28-2019, 12:53 PM

You might be right Matt. I'm completely fictional with a combination of Silvam parks and OOTP stadiums. I just thought averaging one a game was a little too much, but maybe it has to do with the speed of the player and the slowness of a player in the outfield. All the inside the park homers are in the gap to left center field (not center or right).

BirdWatcher · 03-28-2019, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by pitch62

You might be right Matt. I'm completely fictional with a combination of Silvam parks and OOTP stadiums. I just thought averaging one a game was a little too much, but maybe it has to do with the speed of the player and the slowness of a player in the outfield. All the inside the park homers are in the gap to left center field (not center or right).

I can't imagine that the parks you are using are extreme enough to cause the number of ITP homers you are seeing.

naterg1 · 03-28-2019, 11:11 PM

I’ve also been seeing some high inside the park home run numbers. I’ve had multiple games with at least two itp homers and at least 1 game with 3. I didn’t do anything with park factors. I just set up a small (10 team) fictional league and left the stadiums as they were generated by the game during league creation. (Those are just from a small group of game logs that I pulled to work on my dynasty report. I don’t know what I would find if Really dug into all the game logs.) Sometimes I avoided mentioning that a home run in a game recap was itp because it felt so unrealistic to have so many.

roeddog · 03-29-2019, 07:56 AM

I've been running a Deadball era starting in 1901 Historical lg. Stock parks, stock options and have be getting a lot of ITPH's up through 1905 which is as far as I've gotten in this league. I get at least one for/against my Phillies, sometimes more per game.
I am also playing a Power Years era starting in 2000 Historical Lg played up to 2006, again everything stock and have seen homers but haven't seen any ITP's as yet. Granted I have not checked every log for this league, neither have I for my 1901 lg as I have seen them happen while playing.

I am in no way a baseball historian it's my (limited) understanding that the parks during these early years were not necessarily fenced in the outfield. So when a batter connected the ball would continue to roll until the OF player caught up with it. While we have closed parks in the game for aesthetic purposes, could the historical stats be reflecting the old time open outfield parks?

Looking at Baseball Almanac their stats seem to support this. They show the last one was hit by Gagne on 04OCT1982 when he appears to have hit two of them! However, there are several youtube vids showing several that are more recent so maybe it is more common then thought.

03-28-2019, 02:45 AM	#1
pitch62 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 260	Inside the park homers Anyone know how to cut back on inside the park homers? I'm averaging at least one a game and sometimes two to three a game.

03-28-2019, 12:53 PM	#6
pitch62 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 260	Inside the park homeruns You might be right Matt. I'm completely fictional with a combination of Silvam parks and OOTP stadiums. I just thought averaging one a game was a little too much, but maybe it has to do with the speed of the player and the slowness of a player in the outfield. All the inside the park homers are in the gap to left center field (not center or right).

03-28-2019, 11:11 PM	#8
naterg1 Major Leagues Join Date: May 2009 Location: Peoria, AZ Posts: 383	I’ve also been seeing some high inside the park home run numbers. I’ve had multiple games with at least two itp homers and at least 1 game with 3. I didn’t do anything with park factors. I just set up a small (10 team) fictional league and left the stadiums as they were generated by the game during league creation. (Those are just from a small group of game logs that I pulled to work on my dynasty report. I don’t know what I would find if Really dug into all the game logs.) Sometimes I avoided mentioning that a home run in a game recap was itp because it felt so unrealistic to have so many. Last edited by naterg1; 03-28-2019 at 11:12 PM.

03-28-2019, 10:28 AM	#3
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 16,223	What league year are you playing, and what are your park dimensions? The larger the parks, the bigger a chance of itp HR.

03-28-2019, 12:42 PM	#5
Reed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,662	Good question, does park dimensions play a factor in determining in the park or out of the park home run?

03-29-2019, 07:56 AM	#9
roeddog Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: May 2002 Location: Charleston, SC Posts: 26	I've been running a Deadball era starting in 1901 Historical lg. Stock parks, stock options and have be getting a lot of ITPH's up through 1905 which is as far as I've gotten in this league. I get at least one for/against my Phillies, sometimes more per game. I am also playing a Power Years era starting in 2000 Historical Lg played up to 2006, again everything stock and have seen homers but haven't seen any ITP's as yet. Granted I have not checked every log for this league, neither have I for my 1901 lg as I have seen them happen while playing. I am in no way a baseball historian it's my (limited) understanding that the parks during these early years were not necessarily fenced in the outfield. So when a batter connected the ball would continue to roll until the OF player caught up with it. While we have closed parks in the game for aesthetic purposes, could the historical stats be reflecting the old time open outfield parks? Looking at Baseball Almanac their stats seem to support this. They show the last one was hit by Gagne on 04OCT1982 when he appears to have hit two of them! However, there are several youtube vids showing several that are more recent so maybe it is more common then thought.