HITTERS TEAM ?

[GO JIMMIE]

MY FIRST TIME PLAYING SO BEAR WITH ME. IF I DRAFT MORE OF A STRONGER HITTING TEAM, WHAT TYPE OF PARK SHOULD I CONSIDER PLAYING IN?

[Free Radicals]

here the ultimate hitters park in my opinion is Fenway 67 . If its your 1st time playing I would not recommend trying this park . Pitchers get eaten alive there . Try a Baker , or Huntington or Polo Grounds (either yr) 1st . Try to find pitchers without ballpark rating home runs on their card and pray .

[BassballJG]

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It depends on what type of hitting you have Do you have high avarage guys with not so much power, power hitters, more left-handed than right-handed hitters?

I'm assuming from the way you formulate the question, that you have draft cadr filled, or at leat a list of players you're thinking of drafting, but have not chosen a park yet. There are several established strategies that flow from the charcteristics of the parks, so you really do build a team to fit the park in some cases. Examples include Polo Gounds as an extreme hitter's park, Griffith as an extreme pitcher's park, and Yankee'56 as a platoon advantage park.

So, if you wanted to build a power-hitting team for example, you would want a team that would perform well in Polo grounds, where bp(bp=ball park) singles are 1-7 but bp homers are 1-20. You would take hitters who have good on base chances, not so dependent on bp singles for that, and more bp home runs, which in that park are automatic.

If you like small ball, you can still build a team that is more offensive than pitching based. The pitcher's parks like Griffith will kill bp homers, so avoid those guys, but get players who hit for a high avaerage, with or without non-bp power, and who have good speed.

At Yankee '56, the bp homers for lefties are 1-19, but for righties 1-5. In that case, you want lefties with bp homers on their cards, and righties who hit well and get on base without needing bp homers to be productive.

I'm just giving you the basics of how there are different offenses you run in different parks, tailored to that environment. But there is no substitute for experience and experimentation. Play as much and as often as you can, and you'll start to get it. I hope to get it one of these days myself. And always come here to the boards to read and ask questions.

[Frank Bailey]

You can make a pretty good argument for going with a more neutral park while you are learning the players. If you put a few wrong players in an extreme park (Fenway, Baker) or a lefty-favoring park (Yankee '56, Municipal), you pay dearly. The neutral parks let a greater range of players have reasonable success.

Whatever you try, have fun with it, and welcome to ATG.