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05-19-2009, 05:25 AM | #1 |
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Pull/Normal/Spray Hitter
Just wondering if there is any evidence out there as to what, if anything, these batter ratings affect.
An obvious thing would be if a RH pull hitter hit more balls to the left side (perhaps evidenced by more HRs in a park with a short LF fence, but I suspect that the park HR factor for RHB has more to do with that). Thanks. Last edited by aewin; 05-19-2009 at 05:28 AM. |
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05-19-2009, 09:58 AM | #3 |
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Fence distances and heights are purely cosmetic in OOTP right now. Park ratings are the important numbers.
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05-19-2009, 11:52 PM | #4 |
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Not sure what exactly your question is, but one way of asking the question is this: does it matter to me what type of batter a player is, either when he's on my team, or on the other team.
I looked at this pretty carefully at one point, and my conclusion was that, no, it doesn't matter very much. The table is set for something interesting here in OOTP, but IMHO, it isn't there yet. |
05-20-2009, 07:24 AM | #5 |
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It seems as if it should matter, depending on the fielding ratings of the players on the right and/or left side of the field. Not sure if the game takes that into account when determining outcome of a ball in play, but seems it should.
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05-20-2009, 10:03 AM | #6 | |
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The main question here is not whether this part of the game functions as it should, but rather whether players' different hitting types would change a manager's strategy. It certainly could, if a manager was trying to take advantage of a weakness in an opponent's defense, or was trying to maximize park effects to his team's benefit. |
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05-20-2009, 12:43 PM | #7 | |
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OTOH, I did not attempt to assess this in relationship to park factors, because frankly one would have to do a lot of data collection to get valid results. In the absence of that, I'd be willing to take on faith the proposition that if the park had a strong bias toward one side or the other, and you had a bunch of pull hitters with that orientation, you would get a statistically significant result. |
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