Broken Bat - Discussion Forum: Ballparks

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date

#74409	06/13/2020 9:28:29 am	Jan 15th, 2046
Benchwarmer Joined: 01/06/2015 Posts: 445 Inactive	I'm curious about this. Since we have so much control over the ballpark and can change it every season, does anyone have certain strategies they use when adjusting your ballpark? Like for example if your pitchers don't give up many homeruns, do you bring your fences closer to make it easier for your guys to hit one over while relying on your pitching staff to keep the other team in the yard? Or do you just set it to something and forget about it?

#74410	06/13/2020 10:27:05 am	Jan 15th, 2046
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Yes, I usually compare my players HR rates and GB/FB with my opponents to try and figure out if a deep low wall or short high wall configuration will be best. I also compare OF range. I usually have less range then my opponents, so I usually go for a smaller park (including foul territory). I compare defenses and staff to figure out if I want a dome or not. Last season I called everything wrong and my ballpark actually hurt my team...

#76068	07/27/2020 3:30:35 am	Jul 7th, 2046
Alliepixie Joined: 03/06/2020 Posts: 20 Inactive	I just changed my ballpark to turf and didn't pay attention to my fastball pitchers low gb/fb ratios and didn't notice it till the team accumulated over -100 run differential. Rookie mistake.

#76071	07/27/2020 6:51:09 am	Jul 7th, 2046
timothy Joined: 03/18/2020 Posts: 202 West Fargo Turtles II.1	Is that so? I would think a low ground ball rate would be preferable for turf. The manual says turf "tends to reduce infield errors, but yields more hits."

#76076	07/27/2020 10:34:58 am	Jul 7th, 2046
Alliepixie Joined: 03/06/2020 Posts: 20 Inactive	I am seeing many more doubles than last year. My movement pitchers are faring much better than my velocity dominant players. Not seeing a ton of home runs against my pitchers. Those with less that 1 gb/fb ratios have elevated ERA and FIP, with FIP a 1.00 to 2.00 lower than ERA. 6.3 runs/game against us. My movement pitchers FIP is a point higher than their ERA Maybe I haven't found the problem and need to keep looking.

#76077	07/27/2020 11:47:31 am	Jul 7th, 2046
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	There area lot of factors in play all at once, so it can be hard to pin point. But I would agree Turf should hurt a ground ball pitcher more.

#76079	07/27/2020 1:17:13 pm	Jul 7th, 2046
Alliepixie Joined: 03/06/2020 Posts: 20 Inactive	I think without a proven team I probably should not have messed with the ballpark. Only changes made were turf and adding 500 seats. With grass home record last season 44-36 -> home record this season with turf 11-26 so far, 14 games lost by double digits 13 of those at home. I am going back to grass next season. And since it already looks like demotion in my future I think those 500 seats will come back out.

#76084	07/27/2020 11:07:32 pm	Jul 9th, 2046
Carnival Joined: 12/16/2016 Posts: 24 Fresno Eagles IV.4	This discussion allows me to remind us all of the old twoliner: -Do you prefer natural grass or astroturf? -I dunno, I never smoked astroturf.