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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Admittedly, I haven't played Strat in years. Maybe they've started to listen to their fanbase. But even a decade ago they were horrible about this. Didn't they go along and give Raffy a 1 in 1999? Maybe they gave him a 2 (and didn't give any other 1Bmen in the AL a 1 that year), but it was something similarly goofy.
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That was a joke, that's for sure...he DH'd more than he played first base, yet he got a great rating...go figure. But that was true of MLB as well, since he won the Gold Glove that year in real life even though he DH'd 3/4 of the season and only played in the field about 30 games.
The OF arms in SOM are sometimes off too, though that's a hard thing to calculate with an algorithm. Guys with great arms do not pile up outfield assists every year. If a guy is not being run on, he can't throw anyone out, right? That would be the another plus to not using a database download and buying or getting with the game a database that someone actually edited with real life facts in mind. How do you build an rating off of some calculation if a guy did not have very many assists to base it on. I remember Brian Downing back in the early 80's would get 20+ assists a year, but that was because he was run on 1st to 3rd in LF because he couldn't reach the cutoff man. Stats can sometimes...and in some cases often times..not mimic real life that well.