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Originally Posted by Ankit
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15. Standardized batting stats to a 790-run environment using a method
devised by Bill James. He uses this in his "The New Bill James
Historical Abstract" to understand a player's batting ability
in a more normal context. For example, if a player hits .238, with
10 HRs and 57 RBI while playing a pitcher's park and where runs are
hard to come by. Is this player any better than another player who
hits .265 with 12 HRs and 72 RBI? The player in question is Willie
Davis in 1965, where runs were at a premium and he played in
pitcher friendly Dodgers Stadium. The .265/12/72 RBI are Willie's
stats standardized were he playing in an average park and where the
league as a whole would score about 750 runs per season. I moved
this to 790 to more closely reflect the scoring rate over the past
10 years and also because OOTP 6's engine understands this better.
The reason I chose to do this is because OOTP's engine does not
compensate for stats under different eras and as a result, will
assign ratings that are somewhat misleading. If you want to read
more about it, see page 740 (Willie Davis comment) in James' book.
If you don't understand why I did this or what effect this has on
the game, then feel free to e-mail me or post questions to me in
the OOTP forums. I did this to everyone, including pitchers.
16. The fielding information for all players is now based on career
averages. If a player played at least 1% of his career games at a
position, he will be rated for that position.
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Ankit, thanks for the great work!
Couple of questions:
1) I'm doing a one year historical sim with some friends and we drafted 20 teams of historical players from the beginning of baseball to 2004. We chose to use the 3rd best season based on the salaries assigned to the players at What If Sports.
I've been using the Lahman 5.2 and importing each player manually and by the corresponding season.
I'm a newbie to OOTP so I don't know exactly how everything is generated in terms of ratings of players from different eras so after reading point 15 I was a bit discouraged. Do you see any major problem with the results of our sim based on the current method? Should we switch over to your database?
2) How does OOTP generate fielding ratings? During the importing of the players, I've seen some pretty low defensive ratings for highly regarded defensive players. Will your 5.2 version be more accurate?