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Originally Posted by Rasmuth
to tell you the truth...I don't think the numbers are all that outta whack...first of all...offense back then was a running game with lotsa singles...if you look at the individual stats for players then...everybody pretty much stole bases.....
as far as frequency thrown out...maybe a little high...but I bet its not too far off..
as mjj55409 pointed out above...the first CS data is barely above 50% success...it just looks wierd to us being so used to the modern game where stolen base pct's are much better.
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As for myself, although I responded in this thread because of the caught stealing percentage, I am not playing in 1901. My league is "cross-era" (uses arod-garlon's radom debut DB), and is in its 14th season.
It began in 1901, but only numerically, not historically. I am using league totals from 1972, because my league is structured 6/6, 6/6 as it was in the 70s, and because its a happy medium.
In most ways it has produced satisfying results; a handful of guys will hit 40 plus HRs/yr, occasionally someone breaks 50. No one has hit .400 yet, but a couple have made a run at it. The pitchers' ERAs, SOs, etc. are in specs, to my liking, and overall the balance of offense vs. defense pleases me.
Except stealing. CS has been greater than SB every year, sometimes by almost 2 to 1. It is also true that the catchers' defensive ratings, including their arm ratings, seem disproportionately high, league-wide. More than half are 20 (scale of 1-20) and few under 15. Obviously I suspect that as either the cause or a symptom of the problem, and perhaps the DB is the culprit. I recently manually edited the catcher arms, reducing many of them, and so far that appears to be working. That was before I discovered the config file.
Now, if someone wants to say that because I'm using a random debut DB, all bets are off ... I guess I couldn't argue with that. It's just that everything except stealing is working
so well.