Neutralize Ballparks

[batrightythrowlefty]

Has anyone tried this? Thinking about doing this for my fictional league, as the teams with hitters parks always have an advantage, and I mistakenly made one subleague have mostly hitter parks, the other subleague most pitchers parks. Has anyone tried this? How did it work out? Does it make the teams have too generic of stats? I would love to have everyone thoughts, before I decide to do it!

[jpeters1734]

I neutralized all my ballparks once, but I soon found my league to get kind of bland. nothing really stat related, but it just removes an element to the game.

It would be cool to have a pitcher's league and a hitter's league. Might make for some interesting world series'

[batrightythrowlefty]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

I neutralized all my ballparks once, but I soon found my league to get kind of bland. nothing really stat related, but it just removes an element to the game.

It would be cool to have a pitcher's league and a hitter's league. Might make for some interesting world series'

That’s actually not a bad idea! I might also just have the teams use their counterpart MLB team’s stadium as well.

[krownroyal83]

Originally Posted by batrightythrowlefty

Has anyone tried this? Thinking about doing this for my fictional league, as the teams with hitters parks always have an advantage, and I mistakenly made one subleague have mostly hitter parks, the other subleague most pitchers parks. Has anyone tried this? How did it work out? Does it make the teams have too generic of stats? I would love to have everyone thoughts, before I decide to do it!

This is how I run my fictional league. I much prefer it so no one has an advantage and everyone is on an even playing field. Literally.

[Reed]

I play my historical league that way so players won't get a double boost or a double hit playing in certain stadiums.

[batrightythrowlefty]

Originally Posted by krownroyal83

This is how I run my fictional league. I much prefer it so no one has an advantage and everyone is on an even playing field. Literally.

Do stats look too even though? Like where no one stands out?


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[batrightythrowlefty]

Originally Posted by Reed

I play my historical league that way so players won't get a double boost or a double hit playing in certain stadiums.

How do the stats look? Is everyone too event? Will there be any surprises?


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[krownroyal83]

Originally Posted by batrightythrowlefty

Do stats look too even though? Like where no one stands out?


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Which stats are you referring to? It looks like any other normal season except when you see some kind of stat outlier you know it's not because of the park they play in since every team plays on an equal playing field.

[Reed]

Originally Posted by batrightythrowlefty

How do the stats look? Is everyone too event? Will there be any surprises?


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Yes, playing historical with neutralized park factors mean the players have a slightly better chance of achieving their real life stats.

For example, let's say someone like Todd Helton hit 45 home runs in real life playing at Coors field. In OOTP if you use neutralized park factors you sold expect him to hit 45 home runs, no matter what team he is on. If you do not use neutralized park factors and if you put him on the Colorado team, Coors field, you can expect him to hit about 50 home runs and maybe 40 home runs if he plays for the Dodgers.
If you want him to have the best chance of hitting 45 home runs like he did in real life while playing for Colorado in your OOTP league you have 2 options.
1. Play with neutralized park factors of
2. Play using the players normalized stats. But this option is a whole new discussion
The manual use to say and it.Might still say using normalized stats might give the most realistic results, or something like that.

[batrightythrowlefty]

Originally Posted by Reed

Yes, playing historical with neutralized park factors mean the players have a slightly better chance of achieving their real life stats.

For example, let's say someone like Todd Helton hit 45 home runs in real life playing at Coors field. In OOTP if you use neutralized park factors you sold expect him to hit 45 home runs, no matter what team he is on. If you do not use neutralized park factors and if you put him on the Colorado team, Coors field, you can expect him to hit about 50 home runs and maybe 40 home runs if he plays for the Dodgers.
If you want him to have the best chance of hitting 45 home runs like he did in real life while playing for Colorado in your OOTP league you have 2 options.
1. Play with neutralized park factors of
2. Play using the players normalized stats. But this option is a whole new discussion
The manual use to say and it.Might still say using normalized stats might give the most realistic results, or something like that.

Have you noticed players still having “some down years” or do they always play to their ratings?


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[robc]

There is always randomness involved that causes some of the players to over / under perform.