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adlorenz

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Good afternoon HBD players.

It has been a long time since the park factors for HBD have been updated. What this means is a lot of stadiums will be changed to reflect more up to date park factors. We took these park factors from the original source of these which are ESPN’s park factors and were taken over a 5 year average because there can be outliers in certain seasons.

Additionally, there were some cities and ball parks that didn’t exist. We adjusted some of them to reflect the parks that exist in those cities in real life. Lastly we are adding 4 cities to HBD, Tokyo, London, Havana, and Seoul. We will probably add some more cities in the future but wanted to start with a couple new teams.

These changes will occur in the November/December release at WIS giving all owners an opportunity to consume the new park factors and adjust their franchises if needed. As stated in the previous post, there is no way to do this in the offseason because there is no versioning of the worlds, this means that updates will occur in the middle of the season for most users so you will need to be mindful when picking a park for your next season or two. It was not our first choice but it was unfortunately how they developed the games.

Park Name	Park Location	Rating HR LF	Rating HR RF	Rating 1B	Rating 2B	Rating 3B
Globe Life Field	Arlington, TX	1	1	1	1	4
Angel Stadium	Anaheim, CA	0	0	0	-1	-2
Chase Field	Phoenix, AZ	0	0	1	1	4
Busch Stadium	St. Louis, MO	-2	-2	0	-1	-2
Citizens Bank Park	Philadelphia, PA	2	2	0	-1	-1
Comerica Park	Detroit, MI	0	0	0	0	4
Coors Field	Denver, CO	3	3	3	4	4
Dodger Stadium	Los Angeles, CA	0	0	0	0	-4
Fenway Park	Boston, MA	0	-1	1	4	2
Great American Ball Park	Cincinnati, OH	2	2	0	0	-2
Target Field	Minneapolis, MN	0	0	0	1	1
Progressive Field	Cleveland, OH	0	0	0	2	-3
Kauffman Stadium	Kansas City, MO	-2	-2	0	2	3
American Family Field	Milwaukee, WI	1	2	0	0	-1
Minute Maid Park	Houston, TX	0	0	0	-2	0
RingCentral Coliseum	Oakland, CA	-1	-1	0	-2	-3
Oriole Park at Camden Yards	Baltimore, MD	2	2	0	-1	-2
Petco Park	San Diego, CA	-1	-1	-1	0	-2
PNC Park	Pittsburgh, PA	-1	-1	0	1	1
Marlins Park	Miami, FL	-3	-3	-1	-1	2
T-Mobile Park	Seattle, WA	0	0	-1	-2	-3
Oracle Park	San Francisco, CA	-4	-4	0	0	4
Citi Field	New York, NY	0	0	-1	-2	-4
Tropicana Field	St. Petersburg, FL	-1	-1	-1	-2	0
Truist Park	Atlanta, GA	-2	-2	0	-2	-2
Guaranteed Rate Field	Chicago, IL	1	1	0	-2	-2
Wrigley Field	Chicago, IL	0	0	0	0	2
Yankee Stadium	New York, NY	2	2	0	-2	-4
Rogers Centre	Toronto, Ontario	0	0	0	1	0
Isotopes Park	Albuquerque, NM	1	1	1	2	4
Fort Marcy Ballfield	Santa Fe, NM	3	3	0	2	4
Kino Sports Complex	Tucson, AZ	1	1	0	1	3
Breese Stevenes Field	Madison, WI	1	1	0	1	2
Arvest Ballpark	Springdale, AR	0	0	0	1	2
Eble Park	Huntington, WV	1	2	0	1	2
Victory Field	Indianapolis, IN	0	1	0	0	2
Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium	Montgomery, AL	0	0	0	0	2
Dell Diamond	Round Rock, TX	0	0	0	0	1
Olympic Stadium	Montreal, QC	0	0	0	0	1
Memorial Stadium	Boise, ID	0	0	0	0	1
Durham Athletic Park	Durham, NC	2	1	0	1	1
Shrine on Airline	Metairie, LA	0	0	0	0	1
UCHealth Park	Colorado Springs, CO	0	0	0	0	1
Powers Field	Cheyenne, WY	0	0	0	0	1
Smith's Ballpark	Salt Lake City, UT	0	0	0	0	1
Dunkin' Donuts Park	Hartford, CT	1	1	0	1	1
Louisville Slugger Field	Louisville, KY	1	0	0	0	1
First Horizon Park	Nashville, TN	0	0	0	0	0
Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey	Monterrey, MX	0	0	0	0	0
Nat Bailey Stadium	Vancouver, BC	0	0	0	0	0
Kindrick Legion Field	Helena, MT	0	0	0	0	0
Newman Outdoor Field	Fargo, ND	0	0	0	0	0
Soldier Field	Dover, DE	0	0	0	0	0
Huntington Park	Columbus, OH	-1	0	0	0	0
PNC Field	Moosic, PA	0	0	0	0	0
Dickey-Stephens Park	Little Rock, AK	0	0	0	0	0
Hiram Bithorn Stadium	San Juan, PR	1	1	0	1	0
Volcanoes Stadium	Keizer, OR	0	0	0	0	0
Momentum Bank Ballpark	Midland, TX	-1	-1	0	0	0
Arm & Hammer Park	Trenton, NJ	0	0	0	0	0
Frontier Field	Rochester, NY	0	0	0	0	0
Fifth Third Field	Toledo, OH	0	0	0	0	0
NBT Bank Stadium	Syracuse, NY	0	0	0	0	0
McCoy Stadium	Pawtucket, RI	0	0	0	0	0
Raymond Chabot Grant thornton Park (RCGT Park)	Ottawa, ON	0	0	0	0	0
Smith-Wills Stadium	Jackson, MS	0	0	0	0	0
Chukchansi Park	Fresno, CA	-1	-1	0	0	0
Harbor Park	Norfolk, VA	0	0	0	0	0
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark	Oklahoma City, OK	-3	-3	0	-1	0
The Diamond	Richmond, VA	0	0	0	0	0
Knights Stadium	Fort Mill, SC	0	0	0	0	-1
Alfredo Harp Helu Stadium	Mexico City, MX	0	0	0	0	-1
Aloha Stadium	Honolulu, HA	-1	0	0	0	-1
121 Financial Park	Jacksonville, FL	0	0	0	0	-1
Sahlen Field	Buffalo, NY	0	0	0	0	-1
Sutter Health Park	Sacramento, CA	-1	-1	0	0	-1
TD Ameritrade Park	Omaha, NE	-1	-1	0	-1	-1
Sioux Falls Stadium	Sioux Falls, SD	-1	-1	0	-1	-1
New Britain Stadium	New Britain, CT	0	0	0	0	-1
Joseph P. Rily Jr. Park	Charleston, SC	1	0	0	0	-1
Vaniglia Stadium	Santa Cruz, CA	-1	-1	0	-1	-2
Principle Park	Des Moines, IA	-1	-1	0	-1	-2
Riverfront Stadium	Wichita, KS	-2	-1	-1	-1	-2
Las Vegas Ball Park	Las Vegas, NV	0	0	0	-1	-2
Cobb Park	Augusta, ME	0	0	0	-1	-2
AutoZone Park	Memphis, TN	-1	-1	0	-1	-3
Centennial Field	Burlington, VT	-3	-2	-1	-1	-3
Providence Park	Portland, OR	0	-1	0	-1	-3
Cheney Stadium	Tacoma, WA	-2	-2	0	-1	-4
Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium	San Antonio, TX	0	-1	0	-1	-4
Excite Ballpark	San Jose, CA	-1	-1	-1	-1	-4
Dolphins Stadium	Miami, FL	-2	-2	0	-1	3
Nationals Park	Washington, D.C.	1	1	1	1	-2
Tokyo Dome	Tokyo, JP	0	0	0	2	2
London Stadium	London, UK	0	0	0	1	0
Estadio Latinoamericano	Havana, Cuba	-2	-2	0	-2	-2
Jamsil Baseball Stadium	Seoul, KR	-1	-1	0	0	-2

Thank you,

The WIS Team

5/26/2021 4:29 PM (edited)

adlorenz

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Apologies about the formatting, I share some of the same frustration as you all about the site, when the site flat out won't let me drop a simple table into the forums.

Sincerely,

Adam

5/26/2021 4:28 PM

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New cities!? Awesome!

Thanks for posting this early. If the changes need to occur all at once for previously explained reasons, at least we have time to plan a bit.

5/26/2021 4:45 PM

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Nice!

5/26/2021 4:46 PM

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Cool. But I'll be very sad to lose my Tacoma -4,-4,-4,-4,-4.

5/26/2021 4:59 PM

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So you cut +2/+3/+1/+4/+4 Welsh Park, but be sure to leave 18 (!!!!!!!) parks at 0/0/0/0/0 ??? Snore!

5/26/2021 6:17 PM

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Thanks for the update, especially the expansion!

My Wisconsin roots and former Madison residency make me want to note that Breese Stevens Field is a soccer facility, while Warner Park is the current home of the Madison Mallards baseball team and former home of the Madison Muskies, an affiliate of the A's. Breese Stevens did temporarily host the Muskies.

5/26/2021 7:15 PM

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You should sort the list by city, not ballpark name. And instead of "Park Location," it should the city that the team represents (i.e., Austin and not Round Rock, TX).

One problem I see is that some owners have built their teams up over time to fit a specific park dynamic, but now that dynamic may have changed. You should give people the option of keeping their old park ratings if they want to.

At least one of the new international stadiums should have a plus HR factor. I'm also not crazy about that idea because it's not at all realistic. You would have been much better off to add historic parks, some of which might have some very interesting ratings, such as the Polo Grounds, Griffith Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Sportsmans Park, etc.

There are WAY too many neutral parks now. The park list is blander now. Many owners like extreme parks, which can be both fun and strategic, but you're taking much of that away now. I don't think that's a good marketing move for getting people to play the game more.

To the new team that is making these changes: I appreciate your desire to change and update the game for the better, but so far most of your tinkering has been a negative. You broke the colored button system, for example, and I'm still ****** about that. To your credit, at least you did have the good sense to fix what did to the waiver page. Maybe you haven't played the game enough yet to understand it?

5/26/2021 9:19 PM (edited)

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If anyone wants access to it, here is a sortable spreadsheet of this new ballpark list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lYZhyGVIdvo-9397yfnYABkvkrX40p3eazVS1mWrpIE/edit?usp=sharing

5/26/2021 8:32 PM

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Thanks for the updates!! especially the foreign stadiums

Rbedwell - Absolutely love the idea of Polo Grounds and other older parks. And yeah, I personally build my teams around the parks they play in. Luckily, Great American is still a little sand box or else I’d be in the same Boat

5/26/2021 9:16 PM

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Posted by bjschumacher on 5/26/2021 4:59:00 PM (view original):
Cool. But I'll be very sad to lose my Tacoma -4,-4,-4,-4,-4.

Same with my Petco stadium. Baseballs no longer go there to die. I’ll either have to change my strategy or move the team after 40 seasons.

5/26/2021 10:30 PM

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They seem to think that eliminating more extreme park ratings will improve the consumer experience. Au contraire mon frère.

5/27/2021 12:24 AM

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Why are there two different Miami ballparks?

5/27/2021 1:32 AM

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rbedwell's absolutely correct, too many neutral parks now. And yes I noticed it right away because both of my pitcher's parks are being nerfed. Not cool.

5/27/2021 7:32 AM

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