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Originally Posted by robc
I definitely understand your frustration because the same thing annoys me sometimes. Unfortunately a star or regular player is just as likely to have stats out of wack as an unknown. In OOTP, a player with all 10 out of 10 ratings is just as subject to statistical variance as a player with all 1 out of 10 ratings. If about 68% of players are within 1 standard deviation from their real life perfomance (95% within 2, 98% within 3), then the OOTP engine is doing a pretty good job. In my brief examination of this in OOTP 10 (batters only), OOTP did a pretty good job in most catagories, but some (like triples) were farther from reality.
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Ever since they did away with the triple rating in OOTP 6 triples have been pretty inaccurate for most players. I never saw Billy Williams hit anywhere near as many as he had in 1969 since OOTP 6. I believe the speed rating combined with the gap rating determines triple ability and Williams was no speed demon.
I only play individual season replays, not "career" replays so how their game "career stats" accuracy looks is irrelevant to me. I am only playing one season and the argument that in that one season such and such could be possible is also irrelevant since IRL it didn't really happen.
I look at a game like Action and see how much better it reproduces a single season so rationalizing the OOTP system with me when I have something better to compare it to is pointless.
I play two separate games and those two are very good for what they do best. For the way I replay seasons, OOTP has not been good for me but that is not a slight against OOTP because obviously, for the majority of replayers on here, it works fine for them. Everyone has their own expectations. I'm certainly not saying that those people are wrong in what they think because I don't believe they are. They just play different than I do.
So what if they way I play is the bestest way.
