With Baseball Stats, Trying to Synthesize Real, Fun (Kotaku)

[Dabeeds]

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"The more true-to-life the machine simulation, the more repulsive humans find it. That's the "uncanny valley." After hundreds of games I realize baseball on my Xbox 360 and PS3 will always battle that conundrum - and not in their visuals. MLB 10 The Show is acclaimed and marketed as the most realistic baseball simulation on a games console. So I had to snort when I got to the end of a season and noticed that Alex Rodriguez, at 34, had clubbed 61 home runs for the New York Yankees. My God, given that team, that number and that player, the mind reels at it actually happening in real life. That's realistic? It strains the imagination, but let's ask what would be, if not repellent, more disappointing to the human eye: A game that does allow A-Rod a one-for-the-ages home run performance, or one so painstakingly mathematically accurate he's handcuffed to half that total, which is more what he's expected to deliver this year?"

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[acts238shaun]

good read, don't agree 100% but there were good points.

great find

[Snowman1025]

I can't believe that park factors aren't taken into effect with simulations in this game.

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Snowman1025

I can't believe that park factors aren't taken into effect with simulations in this game.

shocked as well

[tabarnes19_SDS]

I could've sworn one of the devs said that park factors were present in game.

[countryboy]

So he took two players who were having subpar seasons and came to the conclusion that the park factors aren't present in the game?

Wow...tough to argue with those findings..

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And yes..its been stated that park factors are indeed present in the game. I'll take the word of the people who actually developed the game vs someone who used such an in-depth scientific formula to come to their conclusion.

[The House]

Quote: Originally Posted by tabarnes19

I could've sworn one of the devs said that park factors were present in game.

Playing it, yes. Simming it, no.

[RedsManRick]

Nice article. Sort of a shame that The Show feels the need to do their own stat analysis when there are professionals such as BP, THT, and Fangraphs who I'm sure would be happy to work with them. The inability to account for park factors is just silly, to say nothing of their presumed ignorance towards controlling for luck driven effects seen through via stats like BABIP and FIP.