field adjustments

[FreddybarnettFTW]

Seeing as though homers are easy to come by, has anyone ever thought of/come up with a way to make the field bigger?  Is this even possible?

[broiler]

Just make the guys smaller

[Turd]

Or, just scale down the power...or apply the groundball hack more judiciously and give less lift to the ball...

[FreddybarnettFTW]

is it possible to make the field bigger though?

[TbT]

I think Nightwulf explained once that it would be a painstakingly large effort to change the field size, but the childprodigy that made Yankee stadium and Wrigley seemed to alter the dimensions somewhat.

Im not in favor of cutting back the power numbers.  I think larger dimensions would usher in more doubles and triples.  Especially when you consider how many singles you hit off the wall in the outfield.  I'm curious as to how well Houston or STL could compete if you could utilize their speed for more extra bases, and negate some of the ease at which the opponents could homer.  I think it would be a small change, would narrow the gap that NY or MIN holds over them. 

[Gantry]

Even with the field large, the large power hitters can just do so much more at the plate that speed will never come close to power in this game. 

[BeefMaster]

I think larger dimensions would usher in more doubles and triples.  Especially when you consider how many singles you hit off the wall in the outfield.  I'm curious as to how well Houston or STL could compete if you could utilize their speed for more extra bases, and negate some of the ease at which the opponents could homer.  I think it would be a small change, would narrow the gap that NY or MIN holds over them. 

Baseball Simulator 1.000 has six different parks (when you create a league, you assign a home park to each of the six teams), and my experience in that games says that there is much truth to this.  The "Dome" park, for example, is the most spacious, which deep, high fences.  I usually pick it as my home park - when your team gets ahead by five or so games in the standings, the game nerfs your guys' power to the point that you virtually never hit homers, so I find that that home park keeps me competitive with the opponents by getting me extra base hits (the computer is just as terrible a fielder as it is in RBI) and keeping their homers down.  "Space", on the other hand, is a bandbox with no foul ground - it gives a team with good power quite a home field advantage.