I have a question that I haven't seen asked before....it has to do with park effects. I know that our home park will have an effect on our player's perfomance, but do their individual park's also affect their performance?

Take an average park like Busch, all of the stats are around 100%.

Will players perform to "about" their ability as in real life?

or

Will players like Larry Walker hit less than normal and SP like Kile pitch better than normal since they are playing outside of Coors? (this is the way I've assumed it works).

I've looked in the game manual and found nothing that mentions individual player's park effects. Under PB Value, it does mention that a player's home park will affect this value, but that doesn't have a direct influence on the game outcome. It also mentions at the top of that section that park effects will help determine outcomes (but I'm assuming that it is talking about the sim team's home park that they drafted, not their individual player's parks).

It would seem to me that a player like Darryl Kile is sort of double dipping on park effects if a manager is using him at a park like LA....unless it doesn't work the way I'm assuming (which should be the way it works). If the player's home ball park does have kind of effect, I think their team should be listed on their player card or on your team page, but it isn't mentioned anywhere (which usually calls for extra scouting on lesser-known players).

Any insight people?

Jon, St. Louis Trash, PB 99 Trad 2