Doubles/Triples Park effects

[harry lime]

There was some discussion in the Polo thread about how the doubles and triples BP effect works and what the ratings are.

I have a friend of a friend who knows many of the inner workings of SOm and here is what he wrote me when I asked him. Thought this would be interesting to some.

I asked specifically what do the double/triple ratings mean and how are they used-- when do they come into effect.

Here's his answer-

[quote:b676bc799a]> Great question. When I looked up the
> "Doubles/Triples Option" in the Help
> section is was less than helpful. However, after
> reading it and playing a
> fair number of sample games using manual dice entry
> to force the computer into
> showing me doubles and triples and using both high
> numbered and low numbered
> seasons, I think I may have an answer.
>
> I believe the number represents the league "mean"
> (not the number of triples
> or doubles but rather an arbitrary number for the
> computer) for doubles and
> triples. Players that were below that "mean" have
> less chance for a triple
> off the pitcher's card. Players above that mean
> can get those pitcher's
> triples. I played sample games and those players
> that had few triples, when a
> triple was rolled on the pitcher's card, the
> computer switched the triple into a
> double. Interestingly, on a few occasions the
> computer asked if I wanted to
> try and stretch the triple into an inside the park
> home run and when I said
> no the batter ended up on second base. When I said
> yes and the batter caught
> the split he did score. In other words he could
> get the inside the park
> home run and he could get the double just not the
> triple. I could not, however,
> determine exactly what that number actually
> represented other than the
> higher the number the easier it was to hit a triple
> league-wide.
[/quote:b676bc799a]

This corresponds to my experience playing the CD game. So it seems the effects are player specific.

Maybe we should try to get TSN to listthem (yeah, right) or at least find out the ones we can. Though as ACE proved-- they could be different.

[Millercorps]

Why not just let the card determine what the results are? My goodness, no a+, triples that are doubles, closers not allowed to pitch, a lefty only PH that only manages to face righties, owners not allowed to manage, a manager that's evil and twisted (Referring to HAL)... I wish they would just say what they mean and mean what they say. I might be able to figure this game out if I knew exactly what it is I was looking for.