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Garlon · 04-03-2006, 07:14 PM

plannine - A couple things about the engine settings:

If you want to do a single-season replay, the numbers that the will turn up in the game engine after you import the season should work fine.

For a career league however, everyone's league will evolve in a slightly different way. So there are no engine settings that are a sure thing to work. If you want historical accuracy, use Iatric's Era Calculator. The Era Calculator will calculate the engine totals you need based after each season by comparing your league's batting totals to the expected ratios and then adjusting the next season's totals +/- in each category.

Babe Ruth wouldn't have been affected by not playing in a HR friendly park since the stats in the DB are not park-adjusted. For historical replays set all park ratings to 100, or just use th generic Old League Park for every team. It is very difficult to get Babe Ruth to become a 700 HR hitter while keeping the league ratios in line with historical accuracy. I'm hoping with this next DB we're doing he will turn out a bit better. I set his rookie season to 85% of his career 162 game average and set his 1916-1917 season to his 162-game average.

As for Dizzy Dean, I've seen him become absolutely dominant and I have seen him become a total bust. That's just part of the randomness of OOTP.

I did make Satchel Paige very strong. The last league I played using the Era Calculator, Paige was pretty much always in the top 3 in earned run average and at the top in K's, but I thought his totals looked acceptable. You could always edit paige and turn him into a clone of Lefty Grove or someone.

I'm planning to have new Era Calculator files ready when we finish he next DB. It will have a new initratings.txt file with the correct totals for initializing a league in any season calculated using 100,000 AB. And I will also include a couple of different mlbactuals.txt files, which the Era Calculator looks at when calculating the next season's engine totals...one kind will have the actual yearly historical totals, and another will go by 5-year averages. For the 5-year average version it makes groups of 5 year spans all appear to have played the same...so 1915-1919 will all play roughly the same, and then 1920-1924 will be the next span, then 1925-1930, and so on. The reason for doing this is that OOTP seems to work better when trying to get consistent totals over stretches of years. This sort of limits spike seasons like 1930...1930 won't play to such high offensive totals, but then again 1931-1934 will be slightly above how they performed since all 5 of these years are averaged together.

I am also going to suggest that for anyone using our next DB, that they expand the league from 16 teams to 20 teams probably by 1915 since we have included so many Negro league players based on so many great players. Expanding by 4 teams should produce better results and provide enough room for all the talent in the league.

04-03-2006, 07:14 PM	#32
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,375	plannine - A couple things about the engine settings: If you want to do a single-season replay, the numbers that the will turn up in the game engine after you import the season should work fine. For a career league however, everyone's league will evolve in a slightly different way. So there are no engine settings that are a sure thing to work. If you want historical accuracy, use Iatric's Era Calculator. The Era Calculator will calculate the engine totals you need based after each season by comparing your league's batting totals to the expected ratios and then adjusting the next season's totals +/- in each category. Babe Ruth wouldn't have been affected by not playing in a HR friendly park since the stats in the DB are not park-adjusted. For historical replays set all park ratings to 100, or just use th generic Old League Park for every team. It is very difficult to get Babe Ruth to become a 700 HR hitter while keeping the league ratios in line with historical accuracy. I'm hoping with this next DB we're doing he will turn out a bit better. I set his rookie season to 85% of his career 162 game average and set his 1916-1917 season to his 162-game average. As for Dizzy Dean, I've seen him become absolutely dominant and I have seen him become a total bust. That's just part of the randomness of OOTP. I did make Satchel Paige very strong. The last league I played using the Era Calculator, Paige was pretty much always in the top 3 in earned run average and at the top in K's, but I thought his totals looked acceptable. You could always edit paige and turn him into a clone of Lefty Grove or someone. I'm planning to have new Era Calculator files ready when we finish he next DB. It will have a new initratings.txt file with the correct totals for initializing a league in any season calculated using 100,000 AB. And I will also include a couple of different mlbactuals.txt files, which the Era Calculator looks at when calculating the next season's engine totals...one kind will have the actual yearly historical totals, and another will go by 5-year averages. For the 5-year average version it makes groups of 5 year spans all appear to have played the same...so 1915-1919 will all play roughly the same, and then 1920-1924 will be the next span, then 1925-1930, and so on. The reason for doing this is that OOTP seems to work better when trying to get consistent totals over stretches of years. This sort of limits spike seasons like 1930...1930 won't play to such high offensive totals, but then again 1931-1934 will be slightly above how they performed since all 5 of these years are averaged together. I am also going to suggest that for anyone using our next DB, that they expand the league from 16 teams to 20 teams probably by 1915 since we have included so many Negro league players based on so many great players. Expanding by 4 teams should produce better results and provide enough room for all the talent in the league.