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Cool
LOL. I was just thinking about what historical flukes would be the MOST DIFFICLT to duplicate given the underlying ratings of the players. Some obvious ones come to mind:
10) I think Clemen's two 20 K games is kind of a fluke. If you replay his career through with accurate roster ratings, I believe he would hit 18 at least once but not 20 on two different occasions.
9) Nolan Ryan's 7 no-hitters. He was incredible, but is this predictable given his career ratings. Maybe it was, becuase I know he also had about 10 or 12 1 hitters.
8) Johnny Vander Meer's two consecutive no-hitters (if Koufax or Gibson did it, it wouldn't have been so strange.
7) Don Larsen's WS perfect game (again, if Koufax or Gibson does it, its not a great surprise).
6) Christy Mathewson's 3 WS shutouts.
5) Brady Anderson's 50 homers.
5) Luis Gonzalez's 54 homers/.700 slugging year.
4) Denny McClain's 31 wins in 1968, or Bob Gibson's 1.12 ERA that year (I know Pedro's ERA+ was better, but it wasn't a fluke - he had 4 or 5 crazy seasons like that).
3) Roger Maris' 61 homers (looking at his career trajectory, I'd say 35-45 was his 'rated' potential that year).
2) Joe D's 56 game hitting streak. I would imagine that people replaying the entire century would be hard pressed to show a 56 game hit streak. I'm guessing one in every 10 or so accurate sims would match it. But who knows? Joe D did have a 61 (I believe?) game streak in the minors, and his brother Dom had a 34 game streak! Now that's weird.
1) Steve Carlton's recording 46% of his team's victories in 1972. That is pretty hard to match.
Fortunately, the game will more lilely produce new and original flukes for us, which makes it so much fun.
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"The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat."- Joe D.
Last edited by TheeeeeeeeeYankeesWin; 04-24-2007 at 03:05 PM.
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