I want to clarify something and maybe I’ll leave this here for a while as my official stance. Shortly after COVID there were two very significant things which MLB quietly did that have drastically impacted how weather is impacting Baseball for DFS and I feel confident enough in the sample size to go forward with a change in my own personal strategy. Weather doesn’t matter anymore for MLB DFS. It’s a sweeping statement and it’s not 100% true, but it really doesn’t matter the way you once thought it did. Here is what changed. MLB Introduced a humidor in every stadium officially in 2022. Prior to 2018 it was mostly just Coors Field, then Chase Field and then slowly teams were doing it on their own and were admittedly not officially regulated by MLB as to what their settings were – despite claims that they had ‘standards’. During COVID MLB started to implement a new Baseball to reduce scoring, but COVID made it so that they had two different batches of baseballs from 2020 up until the 2022 season. The mudding process for each team as independent as well and thus we had no uniformity into which baseballs were being used. It was documented quite exhaustedly early in 2023 when scoring was drastically down how the new Baseball’s just didn’t carry the same and were far less impacted by weather than the prior baseball. The two factors above were done such so that MLB can reduce the drastic differences in outdoor elements from various locations. In other words, they want Miami’s park factor to be the same as Arizona’s. Two completely different environments. And wouldn’t you look at that, Miami has now shifted to no longer a drastic unders park even with it’s dimensions and humidity. I am not saying that these elements don’t matter Wind Heat Humidity Dewpoint They do. They just don’t matter like they once did. What matters for park factors? Batters Eye — Kinda helps when the home plate is aligned properly and you can see clearly. This is why SafeCo is a pitchers park. Dimensions relative to the defense: Why are Coors and Chase so damn good for offense? Because they are like playing outfield defense in Yellowstone Park. I’ve long felt that the Rockies would be better off with a smaller stadium from a dimensions perspective. Lighting — yeah, this is big depending upon…...
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