I do not believe that anybody has done this, but I have calculated Park Factors for over 400 JUCO teams across the 3 NJCAA Divisions, the NWAC, the CCCAA, and D1 that played in the 2022-23 (and for some divisions/conferences 2021-2022) season(s). Some teams have incomplete data, so their Park Factor is left blank. Park Factor Explanation For those who do not know what Park Factor is, I'll give a quick rundown. No two ballparks have the same dimensions, weather, etc. For example, Coors Field (home of the Colorado Rockies) has the highest altitude in the MLB. In turn, more runs are scored and it is a very hitter friendly ballpark. Sabermetricians, who are a lot smarter than me, were able to create a formula that could quantify whether a ballpark was pitcher or hitter friendly. Formula I used the formula on Wikipedia which can be found here . The only exception is that I did not multiply the main part of the formula by 100. It should be noted that since there were man...
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