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Im noticing some inaccuracy, or should i say annnoyances with historical players not living up to potential. (the only exception being teddy ballgame)
Take Dimaggio. Retired at 36, missed 3 yrs due to war, and played in a park that robbed him of tons of homers. If he'd have stayed healthy, he could have played till he was 40. Add those 4 years to the 3 war years, plus say an extra 5 home runs a year in a friendlier park and he could have notched up 500+ home runs. I've simmed from 1901-1970 about 20 times using various recalcs (or none) and not ONCE despite the extra multiple seasons has he even managed 400HR's. Jimmie Foxx is another. 500HR's by the age of 33 IRL, can play till hes 40 on here without getting close to that number. Its worse with pitchers. Neither Johnson nor Mathewson nor Alexander gets 350 wins without 300 losses to go with it.
It just seems to me that the game refuses to let players surpass what they did in real life. They can play for twice as long, be twice as healthy but still end up with the same numbers that they got IRL.
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