What is a 'stadium effect' and how does it influence what types of players I should acquire on my fantasy baseball team?
Every stadium has an effect on the player numbers and who plays there. I will give some examples. If you play at Coors Field in Denver, that's the most famous one, that's going to inflate a lot of hitting statistics at that ball park. Even if a player isn't that good, if he plays half his games in the stadium in Denver, that's gonna help his stats. On the other side of that, you want to avoid pitchers from Denver in your fantasy baseball team, because all of their stats are going to be really poor, because they pitch in such a hitters' park. What you want to do - it does change a little bit from year to year - is go through a list of parks. You can find this online, and see which stadiums are the ones that have lot of home runs, see which ones are pitchers' parks, like San Francisco and Oakland, which are two pitchers' parks and they really deflate hitting stats. You want to really figure out who that is and then maybe adjust your ranking based on who plays there.
