This chart estimates how a hitter’s batted balls would have
played in the selected park.
How estimates work
Ballpark Pal predicts the outcome of every batted ball from how it
left the bat — exit velocity, launch angle, spray direction,
batter and pitcher handedness, and pitch type. Outcomes change from
park to park because dimensions, fence heights, altitude, and the local
environment are baked in, so each dot is the probability of that
ball’s outcome at the venue you’ve selected.
Color coding
Dots are colored by the probability of the selected outcome at the
selected stadium — dark red near 0%, yellow at 50%, dark green
at 100%. The visibility slider hides batted balls whose
average probability across all 30 parks falls outside the
chosen range.
The headline number
+27.0 HRs means the player would be expected to produce
27 more homers at the chosen stadium than the
average of all 30 parks across this set of batted balls. Use the
toggle in the bottom-left of the field to switch between raw counts
and percentage change.
How is weather handled
Weather is intentionally left out of this model when "use today's weather" is unchecked. In this scenario, each
park’s typical environment is built into the estimates.
Sacramento, for example, is usually hot with a wind blowing out
toward left-center — conditions like that are reflected in the year-long blend of the park's weather.
Contact effects
Some parks change how often — and how cleanly — hitters
make contact in the first place. That effect isn’t
built into this chart, but a note appears under the stadium dropdown
when it matters. Great American Ball Park is a good example: it
turns balls in play into home runs at an elite rate, so the chart
will often overstate its boost. The park has been shown to
depress contact, meaning a hitter would likely put fewer quality
balls in play in Cincinnati than what you see here.