![]() These park factors are imperfect for a variety of reasons, but what they’re after is on the money. We want to try to control for this when we create statistics, so we apply something called a park factor to even out the differences. If you pitch at Coors Field in an identical manner to identical hitters as you pitch to at AT&T Park, your results will be different due to the ballpark. More specifically, each park plays differently for reasons beyond the outfield dimensions. If we want to properly evaluate players and teams we need to have some way of adjusting for the fact that every park is different. You can travel to all 30 parks and never see the same same dimensions twice, but that also poses a problem when trying to evaluate the game because there’s an additional variable influencing the outcome of every plate appearance. In baseball, the bases are all 90 feet apart and the mound is at regulation length, but the fences vary by distance and height. ![]() ![]() In the NHL, NBA, and NFL there are certain things that might make certain stadiums feel different than one another, but the measurements of each are the same. One of the things that makes baseball interesting is that none of the playing fields are the same. Click for an explanation of how FanGraphs calculates its Park Factors.
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