Choosing a Ballpark Topic

jbfg8r
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I've looked but can not find any discussions about choosing the correct park for your lineup, or tailoring your team to a given park type.  Can any veterans share any insight into this subject or point me to a discussion from the past. 
I tend to think that I can put a fair team together but I'm sure the experts would be able to point out the flaws in my teams makeup that could have fixed by making my lineup and ballpark, not to mention pitching staff work well together.
2/1/2012 12:53 PM
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I'm not expert enough, but if you go back in the forums about ten weeks there were a couple of good threads on this
2/1/2012 4:32 PM
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I was thinking of putting something together where you calculate (open league only) how many 1b/100ab#, 2b/100ab#, 3b/100ab# and hr/100ab# for your 8 starting players in your lineup. So if your squad of 8 guys had a total number of 8 3b/100ab# then you would qualify for a plus 1 triples park and so on. I wonder if this would work. There would have to be some variables such as maybe a putting bench players and AAA guys in another catagory because after all they would somehow factor in a little. Also to take into consideration would be a situation with one player with a 5 3b/100ab# with low plate appearances. This formula doesnt include pitchers which probably would even hold more weight than hitters.
2/1/2012 5:47 PM
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My method revolves around my pitching. The lower OAV# numbers my pitchers have, the better a hitters park I am tempted to play. If you draft hitters for a specific Xtra base hit, it obviously helps to select a park that favors that type of hit. If you draft for defense, playing in a singles park will result in more ++plays. If you do not draft for defense, playing in a pitcher's park helps reduce the number of - plays. Generally, it really is just common sense. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
2/1/2012 5:59 PM
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Pfattkatt, I always went the common sense route, but plenty of people analyze the dickens out of the sim and I thought maybe there was some great insight that I was missing.  

Mamxet - I keep forgetting to unfilter the the forum from the default 1 month view.  I'll look back further.
Interesting idea chisox

2/1/2012 6:43 PM (edited)
jbfg8r
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fwiw this is a great post read in a old thread.

Quote post by rbow923 on 11/29/2011 4:14:00 PM:
Basic questions for ballpark selection:
Will you hit more HR than you give up? If so, choose a +HR park. If no, choose minus. If you don't know, somehing near neutral. 
Are doubles way above average? If so, a big + for 2B. slighlty above average doesn't mean much. if below average then -2B. 
Is this an extreme triples team? choose an extreme 3B park. otherwise 3B is less significant, there just aren't many triples. 
choosing 1B involves several factors. High average low OAV teams do better in +1B parks. Fatigue is a major factor, if you expect fatigue problems then choose a pitchers ballpark no matter what. Speed teams do better in pitchers parks because speed is more valuable in low scoring games. minus 1B parks are somewhat favorable for teams with very high walks and low BB/9, but if you're close to average this factor is insignificant.
2/1/2012 6:53 PM
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Yeah, rbow is pretty damn smart....
2/1/2012 7:11 PM
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There was a thread not long ago where a guy presented his team and asked people what park he should use. It was pretty interesting and there were a lot of good answers for different ball parks.  Do you have a team drafted jbfg8r?  It would be fun to do something like this again.  Perhaps you present your team, but do not give any indication which park or parks you were thinking of using, so as not to affect the results of people giving you advice on the forums.  In the last post, the guy gave a handful of parks he was considering and pretty much everyone gave him advice about those parks. 
2/3/2012 9:59 PM
chisox378
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if you do make sure to include 1b/100ab#, etc., etc.

2/3/2012 10:43 PM
jbfg8r
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I've gone through 55 pages of forum posts this week. Is that person you cwillis? I'm not a noob, just been gone 7 years. I just built a team using rbow's advice about for the open league tournament. I'm anxious to see how it does. Ive probably always chosen teams and placed them based on this advice but at some point I was thinking you are helping the pitching staff or the lineup and either way it is a wash to some extent.
2/4/2012 4:53 PM
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I think it was jfranco who started the thread I was talking about. It was a really interesting thread and he is certainly one of the best players in this game and a good forum poster too.  I'm fairly new too, so I don't have a lot of advice for you in searching for that thread; oftentimes I can't find what I'm looking for when I search. 

I do think ballpark is pretty important.  You can't go wrong with pitcher's parks like Petco/Astrodome/Comerica/Safeco etc. I find it fun trying them all out though.  If you can tell me what kind of team can be successful in Griffith Stadium let me know.  I used that one once, drafted a bunch of triples hitters, and got beat around the league pretty badly. 

I wish you the best of luck with your team. 

2/6/2012 11:14 PM
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