Changed my park to Wrigley....Im a huge Cubs fan and I was wondering besides the obvious what I should do to play well there? I know get good gb/fb pitchers and a good pitch calling catcher and good fielders........any other advice???

Any experienced owners want to take a look at my squad and tell me if its a good fit

You must sacrifice a goat at home plate and make a blood offering to the baseball gods.  Only this will relieve the curse.

Posted by evil_twin on 11/26/2014 7:34:00 PM (view original):
You must sacrifice a goat at home plate and make a blood offering to the baseball gods.  Only this will relieve the curse.

You'll find that option in the Advanced Management Console screen.

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any serious responses??

Very small sample size here:  I've played nine seasons.  First four in Detroit, relatively neutral park by the numbers though I found it to play more like a pitchers' park.  I was building my team around pitching and defense, I knew it wasn't a good offensive team so I moved to Wrigley hoping to help out my hitters a little.  Didn't work, my pitchers got pounded and last season my team bottomed out and hit around .240 anyway.  This season I figured let's try to play to my strengths and moved to Portland, an extreme pitcher's park.  First 90 win season, made the playoffs.  Make of that what you will.

ty sir

Good luck Theo!

This sounds like a jerk answer but get good players first, worry about the park 2nd.

Mantle is in the playoffs.   Best home record was 57 wins.  But he won 50 on the road.    2nd best was 51 at home but 48 on the road.    So, really, the "best" you can hope for is 50 wins at home.   And, if you have a good team, you'll win 40+ on the road.   

Use home park effects as tie-breakers between players. 

There is really only one park effect I take seriously, and even that not very, and that's the difference between the effect of your park on singles and its effect on homers.

For most parks that's no big deal.  But if I played in OKC or PIT I'd probably devalue power and GB/FB slightly, since those parks permit way more singles than they do HRs.  Even then it would be a modest devaluation. 

good info guys

Since Wrigley plays +2 singles and +2 to HR to both fields you seemed to nail it, but I might also recommend to track pitchers who rate highly in "velocity".  No matter what park you play in (but esp when singles and doubles are +), the fewer balls that the opponent puts in play, the better.  1-2 putouts are the safest