I'm the first to admit that my learning curve in this game has been a bit slow, but I feel like I've finally got a pretty good handle on things...and then I noticed that across my various leagues my road record is much better than my home record. Below is a list of all of my teams whose home record is worse than their road records:

Around The Horn = 0.239 home win % // 0.465 road
Champions = 0.333 home // 0.478 road
Diamond Kings = 0.435 home // 0.455 road
FYC = 0.158 home // 0.471 road
Wichita = 0.432 home // 0.506 road

What this tells me is that I clearly don't know how to pick a park, so the question becomes how do you choose one and when do you figure the difference is due to more than just a small sample size?

I always try to go for the best pitcher's park I can get, and that I don't already have in another world. e.g Tacoma is my favorite park, followed by Burlington.

Maybe it's not the park, but the team you put in it.

You should include the parks you are in. Would help figure this out.

My teams, I figure out what they're good at, what they're not, factor in my personal bias (pitching and defense), and pick a park that helps their strengths. I once tried the opposite, picked a park that helped their weakness. Put a poor hitting team in Wrigley Field. Yes it helped their offensive stats, but visiting teams lit up the scoreboard and negated the decent pitching. Moved the team to Portland, been there since.

Had a good hitting team in Yankee Stadium once. The shootouts were fun in their own way too.

I generally try to pick as neutral a park as possible simply because there is enough to think about in this game. I don't want to add extreme park factors to give me even more to consider.

First team I ever picked up was in Petco park in SD which eats balls in the outfield (-3 across the board). My guys will never win a hitting title but its easy to put up wins there. Defensive guys can be picked up cheap, I pay a premium for pitching but being in the NL in a pitchers park my pitchers go for longer so I save in the bullpen and I love playing a lot of small ball, which again, I can pick up for cheap. A lot of my guys walk and steal bases leading to 1-0 and or 3-2 kind of victories.

Posted by damag on 1/15/2019 6:57:00 AM (view original):
My teams, I figure out what they're good at, what they're not, factor in my personal bias (pitching and defense), and pick a park that helps their strengths. I once tried the opposite, picked a park that helped their weakness. Put a poor hitting team in Wrigley Field. Yes it helped their offensive stats, but visiting teams lit up the scoreboard and negated the decent pitching. Moved the team to Portland, been there since.

Had a good hitting team in Yankee Stadium once. The shootouts were fun in their own way too.

The core attributes win in every stadium-- pitching splits, hitting splits, power, control, defense.

Certain parks require certain focus. For example, in Texas I overemphasize p1-p5, velocity, and gbfb in order to mitigate the effects of slugging percentage. In Seattle, I should be overemphasizing hitting splits to mitigate the minus factor, but in reality I go with pitching anyways because it's hilarious to play thirty or forty 1-0 / 2-1 games per season. Last season I finished with a 1.96 TEAM ERA AT HOME FOR THE SEASON. If you can do it, why not do it lol

Atlanta is minus but not as bad as Seattle, Toronto is basically neutral, and San Fran is slightly minus but is asymmetrical and good for speedy guys I guess. Seattle and Texas (Portland, Huntington, Santa Fe, Colorado etc) are the parks where you should overemphasize the opposite

One example of the things an extreme park lets you do... in both my parks (Portland and Seattle) I have used a starting C at various times with Pitch Calling 50 or lower. We've all seen it argued that X amount of points in Pitch Calling equals X amount lower CERA... but like pjf said, I'm already among the league leaders in team pitching. So I get to use a hitter in the C spot (an almost-DH), which lets me draft defensive studs at the critical defensive spots.

Posted by hockey1984 on 1/15/2019 8:52:00 AM (view original):
First team I ever picked up was in Petco park in SD which eats balls in the outfield (-3 across the board). My guys will never win a hitting title but its easy to put up wins there. Defensive guys can be picked up cheap, I pay a premium for pitching but being in the NL in a pitchers park my pitchers go for longer so I save in the bullpen and I love playing a lot of small ball, which again, I can pick up for cheap. A lot of my guys walk and steal bases leading to 1-0 and or 3-2 kind of victories.

My Portland team is in this same world as hockey1984's SD team. Our games are like defense porn. Extra innings, 2-1, first team who scores wins.

Posted by damag on 1/15/2019 3:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by hockey1984 on 1/15/2019 8:52:00 AM (view original):
First team I ever picked up was in Petco park in SD which eats balls in the outfield (-3 across the board). My guys will never win a hitting title but its easy to put up wins there. Defensive guys can be picked up cheap, I pay a premium for pitching but being in the NL in a pitchers park my pitchers go for longer so I save in the bullpen and I love playing a lot of small ball, which again, I can pick up for cheap. A lot of my guys walk and steal bases leading to 1-0 and or 3-2 kind of victories.

My Portland team is in this same world as hockey1984's SD team. Our games are like defense porn. Extra innings, 2-1, first team who scores wins.

Games in Petco in SD (My home park)

Announcer: Its the top of the 1st on a beautiful sold out game between your hometown Adventurers and the visiting Portland Thunder Wolves. And here is the pitch. He got all of that one. Its heading back. Yes sir. It is gone. 1-0 for Portland. And the fans are leaving their seats. They are going home. They know this one is over ladies and gentlemen.

Posted by drummer_66 on 1/15/2019 2:34:00 AM (view original):
You should include the parks you are in. Would help figure this out.

The parks that I'm in for the worlds mentioned above I am in the following parks:

Seattle (overemphasis on hitting splits suggested above)
Salem
Oakland
Texas (overemphasis on p1-5, vel, gb/fb suggested above)
Wichita

I have been thinking about a change but my main park has been Cashman Field in LV forever which basically has a cul-de-sac in CF with measurements of 328-364-433-364-328. I mean, the diamond is more like a kite with 105ft difference! The effect is good fielding will allow average pitchers to do well. Contact hitters with good base running leading off the order followed by some power for clean up that has high or low push/pull will provide enough offence even with average splits. Yes, my runs for are often near lowest but my pitching is often top 5 as is my fielding and all my players can be fairly cheap. Teams that come in with power hitting but no fielding get killed.I have a couple other strategic plans based on the field that have affected my entire budgeting and development plan but I can’t give all the secrets away. I think I am stuck with Cashman.

I've looked into the strengths and weaknesses of my current rosters, and found the following including my own thoughts on where these teams should go where applicable. I'd love any input/suggestions from the masses on my thought process, especially regarding teams that I haven't had any of my own ideas yet. Thanks in advance!

Current Seattle = Power & Eye for hitters // Control, vR, GB/FB for pitchers ***Should be in a slight hitter's park that is harder for RHB***
Current Salem = vL for hitters // everything except pitches for pitchers ***Should be in a pitcher's park that favors LHB***
Current Oakland = Contact for hitters // Control, vR, Velocity for pitchers
Current Texas = Contact & vL for hitters // Control, vL, vR, P4 for pitchers
Current Jacksonville = vL & Eye for hitters // everything except P1, P3 and P4 for pitchers ***Should be in a pitcher's park that favors LHB***
Current Tacoma = vL for hitters // everything except P1, P3 and P4 for pitchers ***Should be in a pitcher's park that favors LHB***
Current Wichita = Eye for hitters // Control, Velocity, GB/FB for pitchers

I don't think parks matter all that much. But I had a couple of thoughts:

Current Seattle-- should be in a park that permits power and kills BA; lets your power shine through and helps your pitchers who are below average in the 2 most important ratings. MIL or TOR if you're in the North, San Jose if you're in the West.
Current Jacksonville-- pitcher's park. Doesn't reduce walks, which are the core of your offense, but helps your bad pitchers.

I don't think any of the other 5 teams' parks matter at all, really.