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Originally Posted by andreglenn
I've happily rediscovered OOTP with V11. However, after simming multiple seasons, I've hit a clunker.
I'm simming the 1927 season and Harry Heilmann wound up hitting .526 by June 1st. I know that Harry won multiple batting titles, and I know he hit .403 in 1923, and .398 in 1927, and .394 in 1921, but .526 on June 1st???!!!! Really? Really?
Its now August 1st and he hitting .454. I assume what the game is doing at this point is bringing him down to earth so that by the end of season his average is somewhere in the vicinity of the .398 that he put up in real-life. But .526 on June 1st is nowhere near realistic. Sounds like a bug somewhere in the game engine. I would think that there would be some kind of "sanity check" to prevent extreme performances like this.
The good news is that I've simmed other seasons in that era without seeing anyone else perform so far above the norm.
The closest to this that I've seen was actually a 2009 season in which Hanley Ramirez was hitting .512 on May 1st. But he settled down to .324 by July 1st, finishing at .310
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The game isn't bringing him down to a realistic number but rather the law of percentages is kicking in. The game won't adjust performance to match statistics, it only goes by what the ratings are.
Likely what happened is he had multiple hot streaks during the early season.
In the real world in 1923 Heilman's batting average on May 1st was .509 (.531 after 4/31 game) it was .513 on 5/15 by June 1st he dropped to .430.
So your number of .526 on June 1st in 1927 is not toooo far off of .513 on 5/15 in 1923. It's a difference of .013 points over 15 days. Hitting over .500 for a two week period is not totally out of reach.