Friday, January 05, 2007

Ballpark Mistakes

There are a couple of interesting threads on the StratForum about ballpark data for the new set of cards. Apparently SOM's source for ballpark information made some mistakes. Those numbers affect the cards: If the ballpark numbers are wrong, the cards will be wrong. Strat says they have it corrected and new ballpark data will be provided soon. The error, however, will apparently either delay the delivery date of the cards or leave the cards not completely accurate. A delay will mean they went to the time and trouble (and expense!) of making the cards correct with regards to each player's home ballpark. Inaccurate cards will result from fixing the ballpark numbers but not the individual cards.

I don't know which parks were affected. It may have been all of them. The ones mentioned have been Texas, Detroit, and San Diego.

Here are the original (flawed) ballpark numbers that were provided:

2006 Season - National and American League - Ball Park Effect
NL Teams SI (L-R ) HR (L-R ) AL Teams SI (L-R ) HR (L-R)
Arizona 10-13 14-14 Baltimore 9-6 8-12
Atlanta 11-11 6-9 Boston 13-13 5-5
Chicago 9-6 13-13 Chicago 4-7 19-19
Cincinnati 6-6 13-13 Cleveland 6-6 5-5
Colorado 19-19 12-12 Detroit 10-10 5-5
Florida 10-1 4-7 Kansas City 14-11 4-4
Houston 11-5 14-11 Los Angeles 6-9 7-7
Los Angeles 6-6 9-12 Minnesota 10-7 7-7
Milwaukee 3-3 10-10 New York 7-7 13-10
New York 8-8 2-5 Oakland 14-5 10-7
Philadelphia 11-8 18-12 Seattle 2-2 7-7
Pittsburgh 9-15 4-4 Tampa Bay 4-4 9-9
St. Louis 1-7 7-4 Texas 11-11 12-12
San Diego 1-1 14-5 Toronto 7-10 15-15
San Francisco 10-13 4-4
Washington 1-1 2-5

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Strat posted a

Anonymous said...

strat-o issued a letter on this as follows, which basically says "the cards aren't going to be wrong enough for you to notice"

Please know that thanks to alert Strat-O-Matic customers – the best baseball fans in the world – we have been able to correct ballpark ratings just in time to keep our 2006-season card and computer products on schedule.



These alert customers discovered inaccurate ballpark statistics published by the company that supplies Strat-O-Matic with this data. If not for these alert fans, Strat-O-Matic likely would have printed flawed ballpark ratings for the 2006 season.



The ballpark ratings that are distributed with the 2006 board games and computer games have been corrected. The ratings published in Strat-O-Matic’s Baseball Ratings Book are the correct reference. Please ignore any contrary ratings published elsewhere.



The changes made at the 11th hour of our ratings process mean that the calculations for some players are very slightly different than they would have been. To have accounted for this slight difference would have caused at least a month’s delay in the release of the 2006-season cards and computer products. However, our tests show that the variances are well within the expected high-confidence levels of mathematical standard deviation. The 2006-season ratings should perform at the high levels of accuracy that Strat-O-Matic customers have come to expect.



The ballpark ratings have always varied from season to season, based on multi-year averages. The ratings are often influenced by weather changes, new stadiums, and changes to the structures of existing stadiums (fence distances, wall heights, etc.). So it is with the 2006 ratings.



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