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Ball Parks

Ball Park Assignments

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

• If you enter as part of a newly-forming league, then all parks (and the specific year) are randomly assigned. Ballpark editions before 1921 are not used since home run factors are calculated with too little data to be accurate. Each new league is comprised of 24 teams, 12 of which play in American Conference parks and 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 24 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. 

• 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. A Factors report is available in the software which lists the parks in your league and contains essential information about them, e.g., year, their effect on doubles, triples, home runs to left and right field, foul territory, and a Total Park Factor (TPF) which indicates the approximate effect of the park on run production.      

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 (determined by multiplying the current season BSU by .4) payable to the league commissioner. 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 yearly BSU allocation). 
• 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 eiligible, provided you possess a park chip.

Searching for and Selecting a Park