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Originally Posted by Curtis

One of the biggest difficulties with Markus including this as an out-of-the-box feature is due to a design decision he made several years ago.

In order for players of different eras to play against each other smoothly, you would need to make all player ratings be relative to the league averages for the years they played in. That way a player who hit twice as many homers per plate appearance as the league average would get the same rating (let's say 200 on the 1-250 scale), regardless of whether he hit ten in 1915 deadball era or sixty in 2005. In other words, you'd be be comparing apples to apples. The way you'd get the guy to hit ten in 1915 would be to have a 0.167 league era modifier to home runs in 1915.

The way Markus chose to do it was to compare everyone to modern MLB. His way Home Run Baker gets a 33 for power, while Sammy Sosa gets his 200. That means that Baker only hits ten, even with a rabbit ball, whle Sosa hits sixty with a fungo bat. It makes it very difficult to compare players who played in different circumstances. His system uses the era modifiers to change the ratings the players are created with, not the effect of the rating.

Kudos to Cooperstown for his efforts.

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