[Lukas Berger]

Hmm. Interesting.

The historical ratings come totally from the stats, not from any specific OOTP folks opinions. There's no hand-rating of historical players whatsoever going on. So any biases are irrelevant.

It's possible Sid is getting overrated, but if so it's not because someone loves him personally, but perhaps because OOTP's engine may somewhat favor the specific type of pitcher he is, high K but high BB as well.

That being said, just looking at the stats you've posted it seems hard to see anyone with that profile actually being the best pitcher in a given league over a muti-year period. Obviously his 1990 is extraordinary but his previous years match up fairly well with his real life performances.

As a a comp here's rl Sid as opposed to your version, looking at WAR:

1985: 3.8 (rl) - 4.1 (you)
1986: 2.6 - 5.2
1987: 1.5 - 2.9
1988: 3.0 - 4.2
1989: 3.1 - 4.0
1990: 2.3 - 8.4

Obviously the only real outlier is 1990. He's been consistently better in game, but not by a crazy amount in any given year except for 1990.

That's somewhat mitigated though by his great 1992 irl, where you haven't reached yet and his 6.0 WAR.

So this mostly seems to me to be well within the bounds of expected variance.

He's just a bit better for you in any given year than irl, but not by a totally crazy amount either.

Actually if you just look at the basic component stats, they're remarkably similar to his rl stats. The K's BB's etc are almost exactly accurate.

What's different and makes your Sid is better in hits allowed stats, and that's more likely to be affected by the Mets D or even just random BABIP luck in your game than by anything specific to Sid himself.

TLDR: He looks almost exactly like the real life Sid, just that he was playing in front of a better D or had better batted ball luck.