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Old 08-29-2006, 11:38 PM   #9 (permalink)
gohorns98
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Flower Mound, TX
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With Ballpark factors, don't you need to normalize the factors based on the other ballparks being used that particular season in that particular league? For example, deadball era ballparks typically had a much large field of play which will allow for more places that they defense had to cover in the outfield. This in turn would allow for higher batting averages, doubles, and triples. Therefore, if you use the 16 ballparks from the deadball era all of the stadiums will give a bump to averages, doubles, and triples. This will cause the era settings to be wrong because of the park factors. What needs to happen is a comparison of the stadiums that a league is using. The average of the stadiums in use by a league should be 1.00 in each category.

This is my thought. I think your database is great, and the pictures will add to my game. Good work guys!
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