[Left-handed Badger]

Originally Posted by RonCo

There are other things that can affect this -- imbalances in player ratings, league totals, park factors, in particular. Also, if a single team amasses a collection of players on the far end of a scale, the numbers _could_ sway one way or another.

Based on a few things Markus has said, I'm thinking he's double-counted a couple things people are using as "possible BABIP control factors." Hence his pitchers control BABIP a little bit more than real pitchers do. Regardless, from your numbers above, assuming the additional consistency is true, whatever influence is happening is not influencing things _too_ badly.

Either way, though, while OOTP is going to create several consistent pitchers, it can't today guarantee that the right guys (Andy Messersmith?) are going to be the consistent ones in any particular year. To do this, random nature of the game of baseball would need to be coded out of the game.

Actually you could give Messersmith that consistency. You could give them an "affect BABIP" attribute. Not even sure how to begin with that (especially since I know squat about computer coding). But, I suppose you could have most fairly low and those would be the ones that seem inconsistent, and then you could have the occasional Messersmith or Ray Kremer who would have a high rating in it.