Now, of course, we’ve completed 2044, and so I have three.
You know where this is going, right?
I went through and tabulated all or our teams wins, losses, runs scored and runs allowed (at home and away), and have now completed that elusive third season.
As usual, first here’s the data, and then I’ll chat a little.
Most OFFENSIVE BBA Ball Parks
Okay, yeah, this is kind of fun. It probably comes as no surprise that SFB’s Chico Bail Bonds home park is a hitter’s paradise. It has, in fact, played as the biggest hitter’s park in the league over the past three seasons, as noted by their 1.09 average. To get a little political, it makes me happy to see Atlantic City’s Trump Park as the second most offensive, meaning it’s a loser again. Actually, Trump Park’s 1.06 score ties Seattle’s King County Complex and Omaha’s Hawks Field, but I think we’re under court order to list it as the first loser. Go figure.
Anyway…sorry about the politics here, but shit-fire man that was low-hanging fruit.
There is apparently no truth to the rumor that the team is considering rebranding the behemoth to be “Four Seasons Landscaping Park.”
Okay. I’m trough. Really I am.
Louisville’s Kentucky Truck Plant Stadium and Las Vegas’s The Casion by Moe Fugger come next at 1.05.
LEAST OFFENSIVE BBA PARKS
On the opposite side of the fence, it’s probably also not a surprise to see Montreal’s Ubisoft Field sitting at .90, the best pitching park in the league. It’s margin of four points over Chicago’s Black Sox Park (.94) makes it a bit more of an outlier that Chico Bail Bonds is for hitters.
I’m not sure anyone would have projected Jacksonville’s Fidelity Financial as #3 at .95, but there you go. Same for Long Beach’s Vito Constantino Memorial Stadium, which rings in at .96, tied with Valencia’s Honigsfeld Field. A scan of the factors suggest Honigsfeld earns its stripes. Looking at the other two makes me wonder if their RHB average and gap factors are making an out-ranking difference.
A Few Things to Scan
Personally I find these kind of things fun to look at and then ask questions about.
This is why for this presentation I added in the OOTP factors to the historic calculations. Some things really do makes sense, others I scratch my head a bit over.
- Mo Fugger, for example, seems to be playing more offensively than I would expect given it’s ratings.
- Looking at historical shifts, notice how Trump Park has oscillated between 1.11, 1.01, and 1.07. A few other parks have variance year over year (which is why so-called experts say don’t take one season into too much account), but those are some pretty wild swings. Not sure how that compares to “real” baseball, whatever the hell that is.
- I would have expected Charm City and/or Charlotte’s parks to maybe register a bit higher. Both have been fairly consistent, though.
- Compare Madison’s Shotz Stadium with Montreal’s Ubisoft, and you see the power of singles.
Oh, you say there’s still baseball being played?
You’ll be watching that instead?
Don’t you believe it, Buddy. That’s clearly #fakenews.
