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Originally Posted by le receveur
I did say make specific stats optional- you want to keep it fine. and to me ER is obsolete and currently the only stat reported on the players first page. this is a stat that thinks a pitcher is not longer responsible when and error has happen. it also relies IRL on the interpretation of the scorer, as to what was an error, and lead to heavy manipulations, IRL.
and I do understand like many other issues this is not only an OOTP legacy issue. also OOTP has decided to freeze itself in current baseball-like reporting WAR and Saves for games in 1902.
edit: and as for Removing Babe Ruth while you are at it, actually OOTP allows a world where Babe Ruth never existed, it's called fictional. It however does not allow for a world without Saves (i'll pick the worse stat of all)
Addition: from what I saw ER might actually be a better stat in OOTP than in RL, since I don't see much scorer bias in the Game- I have yet to hear of any decision being overturned, or a player going to so the scorer and asking for a change within the game. so maybe it does have some value. I just never look at it.
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As for saves and WAR, those are things that could have been tracked in 1902 had statisticians been aware of them back then. It's much easier for OOTP to include them for those who would like them tracked for historical or fictional games played in pre-WAR or pre-saves eras than it would be to go through the coding process to remove them depending on the year a league is based. I personally think it's fun to see what Joe DiMaggio's WAR is in my historical league. If I didn't think it was fun, I'd just ignore it.