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i think i have found a flaw, well im sure im not the 1st to notice it

but as en example.....take David Ortiz....

if you play him in fenway , his home park, he gets penalized for being a lefty, yet he has a TON of opposite field power and hits some of his HR's to the Monsta seats

Ballpark effects for each park take into consideration the 3 year average of HRs hit by leftys, righties and, HRs allowed by each pitcher too, home and away (pitchers that is, home pitcher and visiting pitcher).

Actually, its probably one of the surest things in SOM research

How is Ortiz penalized??

He has 9.1 HRvR and 4.8 HRvL on his card. That is a huge number of natural HRs in this game.