Park factors dissappear every season

KurtBevacqua · 03-27-2014, 09:13 PM

Playing a historic league with the Spritze DB, random player generation from all eras per season. I set the game to neutralized stats ratings. I noticed the park factors, using real life MLB teams and stadiums, were all set to neutral 1.000 at the beginning of the same. I used another DB to change them all, new season comes along, all back to 1.000. I have to manually reenter the db settings every season. Is this because I am using neutralized stats or is this just the way the game works in this type of scenario?

RchW · 03-27-2014, 11:08 PM

Historical stats whether real or neutralized already have the park factor included, so the as played game should have all park factors at 1.

See this from BR

Neutralized and Converted Stats - Baseball-Reference.com

Carlton · 03-28-2014, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

Playing a historic league with the Spritze DB, random player generation from all eras per season. I set the game to neutralized stats ratings. I noticed the park factors, using real life MLB teams and stadiums, were all set to neutral 1.000 at the beginning of the same. I used another DB to change them all, new season comes along, all back to 1.000. I have to manually reenter the db settings every season. Is this because I am using neutralized stats or is this just the way the game works in this type of scenario?

With Neutralized stats, the park factors are already in the import. I believe they will stay the same after your initial change if you choose not to modify certain aspects in the league setup each year. But it seems that is exactly how it should be with neutralized stats

With neutralized stats and park factors, if you wish to have unique settings for ballparks make sure you knock down Gambo's (I am assuming you are using his park factor mod) settings by a half or more after the 1.

e.g.
Forbes Field might come in with a triple factor of 1.488. Change it to 1.244

KurtBevacqua · 03-28-2014, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by RchW

Historical stats whether real or neutralized already have the park factor included, so the as played game should have all park factors at 1.

See this from BR

Neutralized and Converted Stats - Baseball-Reference.com

So if I went back to ratings based on real stats and the park factors set by the db, it would effectively give me the same results, correct?

03-27-2014, 09:13 PM	#1
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03-27-2014, 11:08 PM	#2
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto ON by way of Glasgow UK Posts: 15,629	Historical stats whether real or neutralized already have the park factor included, so the as played game should have all park factors at 1. See this from BR Neutralized and Converted Stats - Baseball-Reference.com __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit