Can anyone beat this for ineptitude for a player?

My home park is Hilltop (0 to LF, -3 to RF) and it is a 180 mil league. I got '94 Frank Thomas with 150 at bats and only 1 homer. Thats almost Luis Castillo type numbers.

157 at bats. His real life Hr/AB was 1 per 10.6 at bats. Troy Tulowitzki has 4, Ty Cobb has 5 and George Brett has 3.

Is there a reason behind this?

I have used this park, and my overall HR numbers were down for everyone. That is more a park for base hitters (first of all) and secondly, Thomas will not translate as well in a high cap league. 1994 was a BIG offensive season for a lot of players, so Frank will not 'normalize' all that well. You will still get the walks (they do not normalize), but I would think his overall SLG type numbers will be down across the board for him.

Walks are definitely normalized...

94 Thomas almost always disappoints. He'll walk alot but I have rarely seen him put up the power numbers that you'd expect.

For what it's worth, I've gotten 46 HR out of Thomas when he was batting entirely against modern pitchers, and 35 when there were no such restrictions. At Kingdome both times.

I did not think walks were normalized? When I use 2004 Bonds (for example) he gets close to his real life walk totals, even when facing the super low BB/9 guys (like Joss and Walter). Maybe they are and he is the exception?

Barry Bonds is the exception to a lot of things.

You are probably facing alot of addie joss, pete alexander, cy young, etc, who gave up little or no hrs. Put that in a -3 RF park, with Frank Thomas being a righty, and throw in normalization, you are due to have a hr underperformance.

Through 129 games in a 120 mil draft live league that should favor offense playing at Fenway, my Frank is hitting around 250 with 14 HR. He is walking alot at least but his avg and HR are way down in a long running league that usually leans toward offense.

Quote: Originally posted by tianyi7886 on 2/12/2010You are probably facing alot of addie joss, pete alexander, cy young, etc, who gave up little or no hrs. Put that in a -3 RF park, with Frank Thomas being a righty, and throw in normalization, you are due to have a hr underperformance.

Since Thomas is a righty, the LF-0, should be more of a factor than the RF-3.

But outside of that, yeah, what you said.

Quote: Originally posted by seamar_116 on 2/12/2010

Quote: Originally posted by tianyi7886 on 2/12/2010You are probably facing alot of addie joss, pete alexander, cy young, etc, who gave up little or no hrs. Put that in a -3 RF park, with Frank Thomas being a righty, and throw in normalization, you are due to have a hr underperformance.

Since Thomas is a righty, the LF-0, should be more of a factor than the RF-3.

But outside of that, yeah, what you said.

For some reason I thought I pictured righty batting y when I made the post.