OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Talent Pool Experiment to create baseball legends

Gastric ReFlux · 08-06-2003, 12:57 PM

I began trying out an idea yesterday that owes some of its genesis to an argument in Talk Sports about Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth. Whether or not you agree the size of baseball's talent pool was substantially smaller at the time of Babe Ruth, I realized that it was possible to recreate such a hypothetical environment with OOTP5, and begin tests to see if one could create fictional Ty Cobbs and/or Babe Ruths.

The first step was creating a new fictional league composed of two leagues with 12 teams each. No fictional players were created in the setup, instead after the league's initial setup was completed I went to each each team and proceeded to fill the AA and A rosters. This created 1200 players of rather marginal talent and actual ratings, though I suppose if I were to be very strict in the intial construct, I would have edited down many of the new players from their potential talent.

Coaches/scouts were turned off. But it was also time to create the 4 first potential superstars and legends of this league. For one time in the Federal league, I edited a third baseman, Edward Munn, to be brilliant across the board in his hitting talents. I turned a 6'6" 235 lbs righthander, Barry Kanter, into a big-time pitching prospect with 10 in velocity. In the National, a second baseman named Byron Alicea got the Munn treatment and a pitcher Alexander Bellew became a brilliant pitching prospect.

Ran computer manager on all teams, and of course, to fill the rosters, the AA players got moved to the major league rosters.

So now, instead of a usual fictional league start with the usual ratings distribution, there were instead guys with 4 for contact hitting who could likely hit over .300.

Lord Byron Alicea has had a great go of it. In a league where the batting average average is around .265, he has 5 times in 11 years, hit over .400, including an astounding season where hit about .436, walked over 100 times, and hit 46 homers. His OPS was over 1.200 if I remember right. Because the ratings distribution of the league has been wider, his ratings push him that much higher above the center of the talent.

Alexander Ballew has been a stud, winning well over 200 games and losing about 40. Struck out 380 batters in about 240 innings one season, although his strikeout numbers have been dropping as better arms from the drafts have been entering the league.

08-06-2003, 12:57 PM	#1
Gastric ReFlux Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Member #3409 Posts: 8,350	Talent Pool Experiment to create baseball legends I began trying out an idea yesterday that owes some of its genesis to an argument in Talk Sports about Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth. Whether or not you agree the size of baseball's talent pool was substantially smaller at the time of Babe Ruth, I realized that it was possible to recreate such a hypothetical environment with OOTP5, and begin tests to see if one could create fictional Ty Cobbs and/or Babe Ruths. The first step was creating a new fictional league composed of two leagues with 12 teams each. No fictional players were created in the setup, instead after the league's initial setup was completed I went to each each team and proceeded to fill the AA and A rosters. This created 1200 players of rather marginal talent and actual ratings, though I suppose if I were to be very strict in the intial construct, I would have edited down many of the new players from their potential talent. Coaches/scouts were turned off. But it was also time to create the 4 first potential superstars and legends of this league. For one time in the Federal league, I edited a third baseman, Edward Munn, to be brilliant across the board in his hitting talents. I turned a 6'6" 235 lbs righthander, Barry Kanter, into a big-time pitching prospect with 10 in velocity. In the National, a second baseman named Byron Alicea got the Munn treatment and a pitcher Alexander Bellew became a brilliant pitching prospect. Ran computer manager on all teams, and of course, to fill the rosters, the AA players got moved to the major league rosters. So now, instead of a usual fictional league start with the usual ratings distribution, there were instead guys with 4 for contact hitting who could likely hit over .300. Lord Byron Alicea has had a great go of it. In a league where the batting average average is around .265, he has 5 times in 11 years, hit over .400, including an astounding season where hit about .436, walked over 100 times, and hit 46 homers. His OPS was over 1.200 if I remember right. Because the ratings distribution of the league has been wider, his ratings push him that much higher above the center of the talent. Alexander Ballew has been a stud, winning well over 200 games and losing about 40. Struck out 380 batters in about 240 innings one season, although his strikeout numbers have been dropping as better arms from the drafts have been entering the league.