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Originally Posted by actionjackson
I think that if you want the league totals from 1985 to work you need to apply them the day before Opening Day every year. What I mean by this is that you should select 1985 in the drop down menu every year, or if your input year is always set to 1985, hit auto-calc the day before the season starts. That's what I do, and I use 1984 which is pretty similar. I've done this with a random debut historical league that has run from 1901 through 1941 and the outputs I get are very reasonable to the point where the MLB AVG and ERA are very close to what they were in 1984 when you look at the 41 seasons and average it out. They can vary quite a bit from season to season, but they average out to within a point of the 1984 AVG (.260) and 1984 ERA (3.81) last I checked. I don't know if it makes a difference that yours is fictional and mine is historical because I've never really played fictional.
I'd also be careful about messing around with modifiers too much because you may get more of a change than you're looking for in the opposite direction, which may bother you just as much. It's a fine line with these things. I've come around to just selecting 1984 in the drop down the day before Opening Day and letting the chips fall where they may. Hope this helps.
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Mr Jackson taught me this method a ways back and it works great.