2038.5 - Ballpark Configurations that humor me

[Bumstead]

So, I was looking through the pictures of our parks and laughing, cause several of them look silly. I wish I still had the picture of Boise's park before the renovations because it would have been tied for the stupidest looking stadium in the league. Now my stadium looks like this: https://statsplus.net/brewster/park/550. It still looks a bit stupid because of the .8000 for doubles and triples, which is silly. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford to make those factors more realistic (I've heard how we are all about realism in this league)...So, 5 years from now I will adjust my park for doubles/triples to a factor that is at least normal-ish.

Let's take a gander at the stupidest looking stadiums:

1. San Fernando - https://statsplus.net/brewster/park/16 - I mean when Boise travels there I get Dug front row seats in CF. He can't see anything from there and neither can anybody else. Little league field on the edges and I can't even describe the rest of it since it in no way resembles anything related to a baseball field beyond that. Maybe it resembles some of the softball fields I played on that had no fences at all...but then again players can't hit double or triples there...what? There isn't a CF in the league that can keep a baseball from getting to that wall and he would need 3 cutoff men to get the ball to 2B. Maybe ManRam, is stationed out there as an extra player for both teams to help get the ball in? Gaming the game much? Ah...nobody does that...

2. Louisville - https://statsplus.net/brewster/park/4 - this park looks like Paul Bunyan punched it right in the right side of its noggen...Just an observation that the factor for HR's LHB at 1.422 seems to be outside allowed parameters. I guess if you are LH you just need a toothpick to hit a HR. Juan Pierre feels cheated to have never been able to play in this park...

I'm not going to poke fun at anyone else's park. A lot of them look silly and the software used to generate the pics probably adds to the humor. It would be more competitive to change the allowed factor variance to .9-1.1 (personally, I wouldn't be opposed to .95-1.05...) and slow down the gaming the game play. I don't see the fun in trying to win by competing against the software instead of your fellow GM's. I like baseball and I like putting together a baseball team and playing the game. I can't imagine the dullness of trying to find a hole in the programming of the software that gives some advantage...

Just my observations. Enjoy.

[RonCo]

I know Randy's park is made to resemble aspects of the old Ebbets' Field, and has similar playing dimensions. Louiville's park is kind of a reverse Fenway without the oddities Fenway has in RF.

[usnspecialist]

I didn't even have to read the post to know I was number one (both because it was Jeff making the list and because my stadium is unique). My stadium was designed as an exact replica of the polo grounds and I built the measurements before I even got the park factors. The bears don't seem to mind it though, over 90 wins in every season there and 2 Landis appearances.

[RonCo]

Philadelphia's old Baker Bowl had a RF fence that was only 280 feet--which is one reason Chuck Klein had to wait until 1980 to enter the hall of fame. He hit a ton of homers there, and people who voted in time (so the story goes) discounted some of those numbers. Theoretically, once folks forgot the band box, Keine got in.

In addition to the Phillies, it also hosted Negro league team, and was the site of Babe Ruth's last game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Bowl

[RonCo]

I didn't even have to read the post to know I was number one (both because it was Jeff making the list and because my stadium is unique). My stadium was designed as an exact replica of the polo grounds and I built the measurements before I even got the park factors. The bears don't seem to mind it though, over 90 wins in every season there and 2 Landis appearances.

Ah, yes...Polo Grounds, not Ebbets. Still, similar idea. And, yes, the dimensions are realistic.

[Bumstead]

I didn't even have to read the post to know I was number one (both because it was Jeff making the list and because my stadium is unique). My stadium was designed as an exact replica of the polo grounds and I built the measurements before I even got the park factors. The bears don't seem to mind it though, over 90 wins in every season there and 2 Landis appearances.

I found it humorous that it was your park, since you would think that I singled you out. Regardless, I couldn't find a sillier looking park in the group. Wins had nothing to do with my article. Congrats...

[Ted]

I was actually thinking about doing a feature on this topic. There are some pretty silly seeming fence configurations, and some serious fence/park factor mismatches. Of course that doesn't matter at all, but they're fun/funny to think about.

[niles08]

These kind of made me giggle a bit.