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Originally Posted by The Real MD
Because sometimes you get what you pay for. I've been disappointed with OOTP's historical results in the past, which is why I switched to Action for historical play a few years back. Action provides better results for the way I like to play (which is without as-played lineups, by the way)...whether that's due to the game engine, rating system, whatever...it's just my personal preference.
My OOTP play is strictly fictional...for that, there is no peer.
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One of the weaknesses of just using stats to create ratings is that some stats, like fielding, don't necessarily give you the right results. Plus there are subtleties in the way each player plays. Wee Willie Keeler used to get on base primarily by chopping the ball into the ground and he'd be at first right around the time the ball came down from it's first high bounce. Believe it was called a Baltimore chop. Some pitchers are primarily ground ball pitchers. Arm strength is simmed pretty badly in OOTP(not because it's OOTP's fault, but because of the limitations of the historical stats).
Strat-O-Matic for decades has carefully built their seasons by reading accounts of every game ever played that season and they use their judgement to assign certain ratings like range and arm strength. I'd imagine that if Action is charging season-by-season, then they are being just as thorough in making every player unique, and performing just as they do in real life. You simply can't get that from the Lahman database, where Kevin Brown is going to be essentially the same pitcher as Roger Clemens in the late 90s.