Park factor question

Furious · 04-06-2017, 06:50 PM

We're having a discussion in a league I'm in about extreme values in park factors. One of the people in the league thinks the Home Runs settings work independently of the Batting Average settings; in other words, home runs "don't count" when the BA factors do their thing.

If this were the case, you would essentially be increasing your BA by LHB if you also have a high HR factor for LHB.

Can anybody confirm this (or unconfirm it)?

NoOne · 04-06-2017, 09:33 PM

based on how the LTMs work this is what i would guess:

the concept of ba is separate from the type of hit, but it's all taken into consideration at the time of the hit... ie a power hitter has a higher chance of a hr even if ba is the same. including park factors at that time, too.

if i reduce hr by 100 through the LTM, it will not reduce BA by ~100 less hits (ab may be fewer with fewer hr, etc so you need to keep it per/x to compare). taking that into consideration, those 100hr will dump into doubles, triples and singles, proportionately. (anything else they consider the same category - maybe sf/sh included? can't rule it out, they are smaller #s -- once those are in the ballpark# i ignore them - ~1per team/per season)

specific to HR, and maybe others, in extreme cases it may change certain dynamics... so this would apply to small adjustments or tweaks to a league of a rational nature. not 100% sure how it effects the use of power ratings, etc... if it becomes a bigger chunk of contact, even indirectly as a result? if you "quadrouple" somethign related, then i'd look into it more, but i doubt that's the type of change you are speaking of.

Furious · 04-09-2017, 02:56 PM

Thanks, I think I understood all that (except "~1per team/per season"—not sure what you're talking about there).

04-06-2017, 06:50 PM	#1
Furious Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 321	Park factor question We're having a discussion in a league I'm in about extreme values in park factors. One of the people in the league thinks the Home Runs settings work independently of the Batting Average settings; in other words, home runs "don't count" when the BA factors do their thing. If this were the case, you would essentially be increasing your BA by LHB if you also have a high HR factor for LHB. Can anybody confirm this (or unconfirm it)?

04-06-2017, 09:33 PM	#2
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	based on how the LTMs work this is what i would guess: the concept of ba is separate from the type of hit, but it's all taken into consideration at the time of the hit... ie a power hitter has a higher chance of a hr even if ba is the same. including park factors at that time, too. if i reduce hr by 100 through the LTM, it will not reduce BA by ~100 less hits (ab may be fewer with fewer hr, etc so you need to keep it per/x to compare). taking that into consideration, those 100hr will dump into doubles, triples and singles, proportionately. (anything else they consider the same category - maybe sf/sh included? can't rule it out, they are smaller #s -- once those are in the ballpark# i ignore them - ~1per team/per season) specific to HR, and maybe others, in extreme cases it may change certain dynamics... so this would apply to small adjustments or tweaks to a league of a rational nature. not 100% sure how it effects the use of power ratings, etc... if it becomes a bigger chunk of contact, even indirectly as a result? if you "quadrouple" somethign related, then i'd look into it more, but i doubt that's the type of change you are speaking of. Last edited by NoOne; 04-06-2017 at 09:44 PM.

04-09-2017, 02:56 PM	#3
Furious Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 321	Thanks, I think I understood all that (except "~1per team/per season"—not sure what you're talking about there).