Parks: Statistical Factors
The "Factors" tab enables you to create and modify the
statistical park factors.
You can change the park's impact on the number of singles,
doubles, triples, and homeruns hit by left- and right-handed
batters. These numbers can range from 20 to 500, with an average
park having a rating of 100. If the park allows only 58% as many
homeruns as the average ballpark, the homerun rating for that park
is 58. And if a park allowed 40% more triples than average, its
triples rating is 140.
Here's an example. If a team's road games included 140 homeruns
and its home games included 100 (both for and against), you can
conclude that the home park allows only 100 / 140 = 71% as many
homers as the average of the other parks in the league. So you
would assign a homerun factor of 71 for this park.
It is unusual for a singles rating to
be outside the range from 85-115, because there are very few ways
that a park can affect the number of singles that are hit. The
ranges for modern stadiums are usually 70-130 for doubles, 50-200
for triples, and 50-150 for homeruns. Many years ago, there was
more variety in stadiums, and larger differences in park ratings
were more common.
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