Park adjusted pitchers

liam4  7/11/2013 9:41 AM

I think there's an issue when a Colorado, or similar home park, pitcher is away.  The park adjustment can seem to make bad pitchers into superheroes.  May be working right and just a downside of park adjustments?

Today and tomorrow, Rockies pitchers Drew Pomeranz and Juan Nicasio against the Dodgers have resulted in terrible projections for the top LA hitters, which doesn't seem right.

ken_admin  7/11/2013 10:30 AM

I'll take a look at this.  Off the top of my head, it makes sense that COL pitchers on the road get a boost over their default projections which assume they pitch half their games at home.  The Factor +/- shows the change from no factors to having the factors selected so players vs COL pitchers at home will tend to show a negative factor.  The key value is the final Value for the player.