Parks

How Parks are Assigned

Where your team plays depends upon how you first enter the Nostalgia Baseball system.

Colt Stadium 1962

If you enter as part of a newly-forming league, then all parks (and the specific year) are randomly assigned. Ballpark editions before 1893 are currently unavailable. Each new league is comprised of 16 - 24 teams, 8 - 12 of which play in American Conference parks and 8- 12 of which play in National Conference Parks. Each team will have a unique city - league combination so as not to duplicate parks. Among the league's teams, it is possible for a park to be used more than once, because some parks saw both American and National League action (Sportsman Park or County Stadium in Milwaukee to name a couple).

If you take over a franchise in an existing league, you must also take over the park. Taking over a franchise obligates you to take all personnel under contract and the park, though your financial situation may be changed by the commissioner, especially if the previous owner went bankrupt.

Park Effects

All ballparks have certain influential tendencies that vary from year to year. Your park will reflect these characteristics continually, so it's wise to draft personnel with the park in mind.

To see your complete park effects, click the Parks button on the Mail Toolbar, like this:

Once the window opens you'll see several tabs. Click the tab on the right to pull up detailed information on your park. Beginning with Version 7, park factors are now "regressed" so that each season picks up the tendency of the season before and after whenever possible. This adds accuracy, yielding a truer park effect than single season tendencies alone.

Factors are represented as decimals, and broken down by their effects on both righties and lefties. 1.00 is neutral representation. In the following example, lefties can be expected to hit 1.52 as many homers as they might hit in a neutral park. Bear in mind that for every batter-pitcher matchup, players are adjusted BOTH for the original park in which they actually played AND the park in which they are playing during simulation. This double adjustment can sometimes produce striking differences in sim performance.

Note that wherever data is available we are adjusting for the park's effect on batting averages, home runs, singles, doubles, triples, walks, and strike outs.

Getting Rights to a New Park

• There are only two ways to get a new park in Nostalgia Baseball: either get a park chip by winning the park lottery or get a park chip by advancing high enough in owner class. Lottery tickets can be purchased up until the season date of August 31st. During the game event that nudges past August 31st, the lottery will run. You can see the results in the League News report. If you win the lottery, you will need to make a decision on a new park sometime before the next draft commences.

• Having a park chip does not obligate you to move to a new park. However, ball park chips cannot be bought and sold.

• If you decide on a new park, you'll be assessed a one-time fee. The cost is substantial, but is more than offset by enhanced revenues.

• To encourage owners to try new parks, owners in transit are permitted to carry negative account balances without penalty for their first year in the new park.

• Your first four seasons in a new park come with guaranteed "Park Revenue" on a descending curve (25%, 17%, 12% and 5% percent of the seasonal owner's salary).

• At the end of the fourth season "Park Revenues" disappear.

• A simple cost-benefit analysis shows that new stadiums are a financial perk. Assuming a stable BSU of 1500, the cost of the new stadium would be 600 units. But that investment would generate excess revenues of 375, 255, 180 and 75 units over the next four seasons, paying for itself in just two seasons, and gradually placing the owner in an improved financial condition. __**Note:**__ actual profits will vary depending upon the BSU value; only the percentages are guaranteed.

• You cannot submit a new park request until a previous new park cycle is completed. When the park credit line in your ledger goes to zero you will be eligible, provided you possess rights to a new park.