What is the trick to choosing a home field in which your team has a clear advantage? 

I have put good hitting teams in hitters parks, and good pitching teams in pitchers parks with poor results.

There must be a way to give your team an advantage in a certain park...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!!!!
2/21/2012 12:02 PM
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There are lots of strategies to the underlying numbers, but your park/team stats should coexist...not just "hitters in a hitting park" and "pitchers in a pitching park."

I always draft a handful of players (my 2-5 hitters, top 3 starting pitchers and two bullpen guys) and then look at what these guys do best. If the hitters hit homeruns and the pitchers don't give up any, I'll choose a + HR park. If all the hitters hit 1Bs and 2Bs and the pitchers OAVs are low, then I'll look for a + 1B OR + 2B park.  If I have hitters who walk and steal bases with pitchers who have higher OAVs, then I'll pick a - 1Bs park to help out the pitchers and make walks/steals more valuable.  If I go with great hitters and mediocre pitching (or vice versa), I'll grab a true pitchers park (or vice versa).

The key is to look at what the best players on your team do, and match a park to them. Once you do this, fill out the rest of your team with players that accentuate that ballpark. For example, if you have a + doubles park, search for your remaining players by 2B/100AB#.  If you play in a negative singles park, choose pitchers who don't walk people. If you play in a + singles park, get pitchers with lower OAVs and look for high 1B/100AB# who run well.

 

2/21/2012 2:19 PM
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Posted by basketcall on 2/21/2012 12:02:00 PM (view original):
What is the trick to choosing a home field in which your team has a clear advantage? 

I have put good hitting teams in hitters parks, and good pitching teams in pitchers parks with poor results.

There must be a way to give your team an advantage in a certain park...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!!!!
The trick is to build a team that benefits more (or is hurt less) from a park that your opponents' teams will be

Your hitters' strengths should match your parks plus modifiers while your pitcher's strengths should probably counter the park's plus modifiers.  Your pitchers' weaknesses should probably align with the park's minus modifiers. 

Keep in mid some players and pitchers are simply great values and can perform outsized to their salary in any stadium.
2/25/2012 12:45 AM
frazzman80 and zubinsum...

Thank you!!! 
2/25/2012 11:17 AM
There are a ton of threads on this it's worth doing a little search on this.   The best answer is from rbow, maybe 3 months ago?  I would sum it up but I would screw it up.
2/25/2012 1:50 PM
What I usually do is first decide which park I want to play in, and then draft my team accordingly.  For instance, if I want to play in a park like Municipal Stadium which is a great hitter's park, I try to fill my lineup with guys who have a 2B/100AB# rating of 7 or more, and a 3B/100AB# of 2 or more.  As for pitchers, I'll draft guys with low oav# numbers (less than .200) and hope for the best because as Zubinsum noted, having your hitters and pitchers match your park is the key to having a homefield advantage.
2/26/2012 2:59 AM

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