[JeffV64]

Hi all,

Worried that this is a bit complex, and hoping that folks have advice.

I have been trying to play a fictional league with the 2008 stats. My ERA across five sim years now has been very high -- around 5.00. Since I am not playing with the DH I am hoping for something close to 4.30.

In investigating a bit further after my last year sim, batting average is coming in a bit low (.247 compared to .260 2008 NL), OPB is fine except for what can be accounted for by batting average, but SLG is out of this world (.456 compared to .413).

In investigating SLG further, my doubles rate might be a tad low (17% of all hits, vs. about 20.5% for 2008 NL), the triples rate is great, but the HR rate is whack (21.1% of all hits, vs. 11.3%).

MY PCM's are all set at 1.0. Should I adjust my league totals to reduce the HR rate? If so, should I also increase the hit rate? In other words, will the HR that get taken away generally turn into outs? If so that will drop my average too, so I'm thinking something should be done to compensate.

Thanks a ton for any advice.

Jeff