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Originally Posted by BaseballMan
So far i think the game seems to do a better job than in the past. I created a historical league using the lahman database 5.3 just to see how Cobb would do. I didnt make an ychanges to default settings and Cobb batted .329 and 677 steals and .313 and 450 steals in another. In both he played from 1905 until i ended each league around 1919. Of course thats just one player but usually he would do poorly unless you edited his ratings or used a modified database. I would like to get a 19th century league going so i can see how Cy Young does from the start. For me the game has never quite figured out what to do with Cy. First 3 years hes a starter, next 5 a reliever, then a starter, then a reliever. Someitmes he even went to closer and back to reliever or starter.
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I believe a large part of the starter to reliever and back problem is in the fact that the game in the past really did not handle the reliever role correctly in the very early days of historical baseball. When you go back and see pitchers would start 40+ games and complete an overwhelming majority of them by default then relievers would rarely be used. In a large part IMO this was largely due to the game not using anything but the 25 man roster we are used to seeing in modern day.
For instance in 1892 the Cleveland Spiders used a total of 17 players the entire season. Their pitching staff had 140 complete games in a 153 starts. As a matter of fact the entire league had 1,623 complete games in 1,842 total games. For a 12 team league this would be an average of 86.8% of the time the starter finished the game. Compare this to 189 complete games last year in 4860 starts or 3.9%.
I would be curious to see if someone set the game up with more accurate roster sizes and more accurate team strategies, i.e. don't pull the starter unless his arm was about to fall off, what would happen.