Re: Baseball Totals
Doug,
I'm glad that you post topics like this as I prefer reading topics on methodology rather than the run of the mill stuff you get on most message boards (Play this, fade this, etc.).
As far as your measuring ballpark affect goes, I believe you can get data like this off of statistical sites out there. Otherwise you can always create it yourself depending on the purpose you are using it for. Ballparks are something that don't change from year-to-year like teams do, so you can use a few years of data to calculate an accurate ballpark factor. I wish you well in your simulations, and I'm interested in hearing how you deal with bullpens.
Bullpens is what took the longest amount of time in our handicapping methods. I don't believe there is a "right" answer and I'm sure there are many ways to deal with it.
Good stuff.
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