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Originally posted by baseballbob
ctorg,
could you please go into more detail on what the 'recalculate for historical accuracy' button actually does?
I guess what I'm mostly wondering is...does it work by taking the totals of all of the starters you have listed for your season (the totals the game uses as its base for calculating the player abilities) and then adjusting the 'league totals' numbers to be such that a full season play-through of your season will produce stats similar in magnitudes to the initial player stat profiles?
And, what happens with the 'recalculate' button in the case of a historical league?
Is it the case that when players are imported from Lahman that for ratings based on career performance that all those ratings are basically lumped into an average and those average per-seasonal numbers are then the basis for the player performance? And therefore what the recalculate button would adjust the 'league totals' in reference to?
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The "recalculate for historical accuracy" button looks at the ratings of the players in the league and adjusts the league total settings so that the league's statistics will be similar to whatever year you're in, no matter if you're using fictional or actual or historical players. In other words, if you have a league that's in 1901, the league totals will be adjusted so that your best power hitters will hit around 10 homers, but 15 triples would not be uncommon. I'm not sure what formula Markus used to do this, but it works well from what I can tell.
As far as importing from Lahman's database, it bases the ratings of the player on the year you import, but it bases the player's talent levels on his career. So if you import 1987, you will get a Wade Boggs who hit .363 with 24 home runs, quite a lot of homers for Mr. Boggs. His talent level for homers, though, will probably be "fair", which will cause his home run rating to decline with time.