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Originally Posted by Spritze
So you are saying that if we include the correct schedules there is only one item to clean up in OOTP12 to have real 19th century baseball? The players on dead teams need to be released? Holy Moley! That is awesome.
Everything else works? Wowsers!
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The only issue I may had is in 1871 particularly there are a lot of high scoring games. I think this is due to the inability to import neutralized stats for fielding. I did check the actual outcomes though and there were a lot of high scoring games that year. This was a period before players used gloves and fielding was not near as good as today. The real data show a lot of errors, recorded not errors in the data, for fielders so you get a lot of high scoring games but the pitchers have low ERAs due to a lack of earned runs. Fielding ratings are often crap for many positions in this era using real stats. Being able to use an .odb file and import neutralized stats may help this. Then again this was before gloves and fielding just may have been crap compared to today.
I noticed this goes away as you approach the 1880's which is somewhat consistent with the beginning of gloves appearing in the league. I think it was late in the 1870's when Al Spalding used his first base glove and wasn't laughed at and the trend started to catch on.