by palacekillers » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:19 am
I'm just a rookie too, but the # symbol means the homerun is ballpark dependent. If an 11 is rolled for that homerun there will be an additional roll of a 20 sided die. Let's say you have a right handed batter up and the right handed HR rating for the park is 1-6. You need a roll of anywhere from 1-6 in order to get a homerun out of that 11. Otherwise it is just a long out.
This is important to plan around if you have a tough park to hit HR's in. You are going to want your own guys to have HR's that are not ballpark dependent. Incidentally, the < sign means the same thing for singles. You have an additional roll that needs to come out within the singles rating for the park or else it turns into a line-out.
Obviously we don't roll anything ourselves, but the less ball park effect your hitters have the more singles and HR's they will get compared to identical batters who have #'s and <'s.