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omniart · 01-20-2011, 11:17 PM

Hello! This is my first post on these forums, having just purchased OOTP Baseball last week. I'm quite addicted already & wanted to thank everyone at OOTP for making an awesome game. Thanks!

I had two more technical questions about the game. First, is the outcome of an at-bat based solely on the pure ratings, or are baseball statistics used? In other words, might a .300 & a .305 hitter both be abstracted to, say, a Contact Rating of 15, giving them, in effect, the same chance of getting a hit? Or does the .305 hitter actually have a very slight edge?

Second, how are the market size ratings determined? I see that it's a rating from 1 to 20, but I don't see anything about the basis of these ratings. (Though, it just now occurred to me that perhaps they could be determined by using the population & latitude/longitude information, say by totaling the population of all cities within 10 miles of the team's city.)

01-20-2011, 11:17 PM	#1
omniart Major Leagues Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Seattle, Washington Posts: 330	Hello, I'm Loving OOTP 11, & Two Questions Hello! This is my first post on these forums, having just purchased OOTP Baseball last week. I'm quite addicted already & wanted to thank everyone at OOTP for making an awesome game. Thanks! I had two more technical questions about the game. First, is the outcome of an at-bat based solely on the pure ratings, or are baseball statistics used? In other words, might a .300 & a .305 hitter both be abstracted to, say, a Contact Rating of 15, giving them, in effect, the same chance of getting a hit? Or does the .305 hitter actually have a very slight edge? Second, how are the market size ratings determined? I see that it's a rating from 1 to 20, but I don't see anything about the basis of these ratings. (Though, it just now occurred to me that perhaps they could be determined by using the population & latitude/longitude information, say by totaling the population of all cities within 10 miles of the team's city.)