Author Topic: Home field DISadvantage?  (Read 775 times)

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Offline tomterp

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Home field DISadvantage?
« Topic Start: September 22, 2005, 07:36:42 PM »
Chief, it doesn't matter how well you hit at home vs. road, it matters do you hit better than the OTHER guys at home.  

In other words, look at our opponents averages away and at RFK, I bet you would see similar discounts.  More importantly is our runs scored vs opponents.

Scot has access to Baseball Prospectus, could tell us the RFK discount factor.

There is some free content at BP, one thing that was interesting is that although we are last in scoring, they rate us only 4th worst in offense, due to park effect.  Pittsburgh and Colorado were judged worse, I can't remember the other one (Houston?).

I bet next season the familiarity may narrow the gap, too.  

Rick Short and Ryan Zimmerman don't seemt o have any issues, either....