College Park Factors

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 many games played at neutral sites, so I included them as road games.

Scale

   If the Park Factor is Less Than 1, it is More Pitcher Friendly

   If the Park Factor Equals 1, it is Neutral

   If the Park Factor is More Than 1, it is More Hitter Friendly

How Did I Do This

There is an official NJCAA website with a link to baseball stats which can be found here. If you click on stats, you can see split stats which includes many different factors (including game location). I used a webscraper with the Python coding language to gather all of this information. I might show the exact code at a later time, but it takes 20+ minutes to run everything and that would waste your precious time. I also applied a similar process using the NWAC website. The CCCAA was a little bit more involved since their schedule was not as simple, but I was able to webcrawl using their standings. For D1, I took the information from the D1Baseball.com Team Leaderboard and filtered by home and away splits.

How Can I Access This Information

I have shared the Google Sheets file that contains all of this information. I have put it here for your access whether that be copying, viewing, etc. It incudes the team name and their Park Factor. Also for NJCAA teams, I included their Division and Region. I hope this information is useful for whatever purpose it may serve!