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Are home and road batting stats factored into the cards?

No. It goes by ballpark ratings only. The card only plays off the dice. Ballpark affects will change the outcome. If you are playing at Petco a single and homerun are harder as the number is low. Coors would make the chances higher. 1 being the lowest and 20 being the highest chance.

If you mean a hitter's real life home and road batting stats the answer is no. Guy hits .250 at home and .350 on the road for an overall .300 BA he is going to hit .300 everywhere. That is with the disclaimer that road or home parks are not particularly suited to the card in question.

That is not to say home and road stats are not built in to the game. The computer will adjust the dice rolls so instead of 50/50 split of outcomes coming off the hitters or pitchers cards they lean toward the home team. In other words Colby Lewis pitching at home may get 55% of rolls from his card instead of dead even 50% split. Goal is to simulate home field advantage.

The 55/45 split explains why both my pitchers and hitters do better at home. Thanks.

"The computer will adjust the dice rolls so instead of 50/50 split of outcomes coming off the hitters or pitchers cards they lean toward the home team. In other words Colby Lewis pitching at home may get 55% of rolls from his card"

... or, maybe, if you're the road team, your pitcher gets only one roll on his card in the first 18 batters ...

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=162449&g_id=345

Yes, that's right -- 17 out of the first 18 coin-flips come up "tails."

Not sure what the odds are, but it's a fair bet they're at least 50,000 to 1 (18 out of 18 is 262,144 to 1). I've been playing 4 years and four months, with about 8400 games, so you'd think this would happen to me maybe every quarter-century, on average ...

Get rid of the stupid home-field advantage rules. The last at-bat is enough. There are no screaming fans in SOM, so why pretend otherwise? Screaming fans aren't part of the rules of baseball, but the last at-bat is. And Bernie can tell you, the 1970s Brewers (for example) went a long time drawing, like, 8000 people a game ...

[quote:3248503a8a]The computer will adjust the dice rolls so instead of 50/50 split of outcomes coming off the hitters or pitchers cards they lean toward the home team[/quote:3248503a8a]

Really? I've been paying here for 10 years and this is the first I've heard that Hal has home field logic in determining dice roll outcomes.

Where did you get this information if I may ak?

[quote:535f779921]Screaming fans aren't part of the rules of baseball, but the last at-bat is[/quote:535f779921]

Technically you're right, but it is a relatively new rule, only formalized in MLB in 1950. Prior to that, home teams could choose to bat first or last, and in early baseball history, teams flipped coins to determine who would bat first. Check out this article:

[url]http://baseballhistoryblog.com/432/to-bat-first-or-last-that-is-the-question/[/url]

Bill

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Cl.....I mean, there is a home-field advantage.

Home field has a .010 edge factored into the game, which reflects real life.

I think it's a great feature myself.

[quote:f7f5cabbf8="george barnard"][quote:f7f5cabbf8]Screaming fans aren't part of the rules of baseball, but the last at-bat is[/quote:f7f5cabbf8]

Technically you're right, but [/quote:f7f5cabbf8]

"If the President dies in office, the Vice President is sworn in as the succeeding President."

Technically you're right, but ....

[quote:6457da6afc]"If the President dies in office, the Vice President is sworn in as the succeeding President."

Technically you're right, but .... [/quote:6457da6afc]

Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

The 25th Amendment was formally adopted in February 1967 and got rid of the ambiguous language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution.

My original point was obviously not to deny the home team rules of MLB, but just to point out that what we consider normal rules today are the result of changes over the years. 1950 is relatively late in baseball's evolution; convention had dictated that the home team bat first, but not the rules. Your example is well-taken and confirms my point: 1967 is even later in terms of American history; convention dictated that the government continue despite the problems of succession. Some people just assume that because it is the way it is that it means that it was the way it is.

Now let's just calm down and have some fun.

Bill

BTW have you checked to see if 17 of 18 rolls ever went for you? :P