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That's the way the game has been played for over a hundred years and ball
players are often hired for their ability to hit hr's in a particular
park... left handed hitters or right handed hitters depending on the
distances to either field.. But they still have to play the other half
of the games in opposition parks with hostile crowds and distances that
are different... some more advantageous and some less so. Meanwhile, the
opposing players also come into a park for 14 or more games a year and
face the same surroundings. Look at the stats for wins at home vs wins
on the road... some teams do well, others poorly. It all works out in
the end. The best teams (in today's game it's usually the teams with the
highest salaries) often win and this year they did not win... Yankess and
Phillies got knocked out early, Red Sox didn't even make the playoffs at
all. So, home field advantage didn't work out.
This isn't nuclear science... baseball is a game of inches... one well
hit ball can get caught up in an inbound wind and be caught, while the
same man can come to the plate the next inning and get a game winning
double.
A pitcher can win 20 games but be knocked around in the playoffs... look
at Cliff Lee and Roy Oswalt this year. The distances only matter in
perfect conditions and that rarely occurs in a game... otherwise you
would see the long ball hitters such as Pujols or Howard getting 70
homeruns every year and that never happens.
M
On Oct 20, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
I agree that winds play a role, at least in footfall and baseball (andthere,
golf). But the distances/walls should be uniform. If your park has the
shortest distances to the outfield and you play half your games at
that's a HUGE factor/advantage.at
Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu> writes:
It is not as simple as "one" distance or even two. You have distance
tothe foul poles, left field, center field, right field, etc. Plus
intangibles such as the "green monster" in Fenway, the long dead center
in some parks but short right and left field... hogh walls, low walls,
etc. a lot of things like that. Certain enclosed stadiums are easier
ishit hr's because no wind swirlling around, while some stadiums have
prevailing winds blowing in or blowing out which affect hr's. Many
things which tend to normalize out over 162 games.
On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
I don't have the park stats in front of me, but I wonder what the
differential is between the "smallest" and "largest" baseball parks in
terms of distance from home plate to the outfield walls. I imagine it
writes:"significant" enough to affect the long balls, which definitely altersbut
game outcomes. Nobody can really change the weather or crowd control,
park size for baseball (as in nearly all other sports) should beuniform.
Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
weathervery good comparison.. even football stadiums are different in
matterand wind conditions. home crowds affect a game, even with hockey and
basketball even though all basketball courts are the same all over.
making a baseball stadium the same as every other stadium wouldn't
playwith the home crowd and weather unless you enclose every stadium and
before no crowd at all.
On Oct 20, 2011, at 3:58 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:
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