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I don't believe I've posted a better home record in 200+ SOMO leagues. I will have to check one old Shea team (1-16/1-4 #HR) when Bonds was on the juice.

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I don't get it. Your team doesn't look at all designed for Forbes field. Forbes is death valley for righties, but your righties had great years Belanger .326, Allen .309.

You did have a great lineup: Allen, Jackson, Bonds, Carew, Sangullien. THose guys will hit anywhere. So, I see why the team won a lot, but I can't figure at all why the home record was so much better than the road record. Just luck? Any explanations?

I'd say it was more the great pitching, combined with some good luck regarding the hitters--lots of guys having career years simultaneously.

I love a team like this.

I don't know how much of it was luck tomwist. He had a great 1-2 punch of super overpower (outright homers) combined with great speed. In ATG, Mays is always a beast -- even in the Astrodome he'll rack in 140 rbi. But Duke Snider sucks in the same park. Reggie hits homers at a 40 homer pace vs R in Forbes. Allen hits HRs vs L at a 54 homer pace and he'll face 33% lefties in 1969. Most other power hitters can't come close in Forbes.

To boot, both hit lots of open ended doubles -- 'DOUBLE' vs 'DO**'. A fast runner on first can score off those at a 65% clip on up even with good OF arms. Carew has tons these as well, which is how he winds up w/83 rbi in a difficult place like Forbes. Every single hitter on the team has speed 15 and up-- even Reggie and 1B Allen!

62 wins is totally amazing by any standard, but he'd definitely have a good record and I wouldn't be surprised to see him push close to 50 wins with this team in Forbes on a regular basis. Power teams are too slow and other teams can't match the power.