[Darviathar]

[QUOTE=stevem810;4145896]I'm letting the A.I. manage the other teams and I'm managing the Tiger line ups/substitutions, etc.

Your stats definitely reflect more of what actually played out. I'm a bit surprised the Tigers are not doing better because, Ho Jo for example, has been a valuable contributor (but was in Sparky's doghouse) and will likely receive +200 more AB's.

Of course, Jack Morris has an ERA more that 1.00 over his actual and Gibby has a .757 OPS compared to .879 (and has suffered some injury time).

Also, 13-17 in 1 run games plays into it.

I'm actually okay not having the actual line-ups as it does create more opportunity for the season to play out differently with injuires, etc.

Morris indeed had a high ERA in 1984 in my league as well (3.86) but won 21 games in spite of it. He won 20 with a 3.03 ERA in 1985. Gibson was close to target at .291 24 96 with a .902 OPS. He followed this with a very fine 1985 season. I think what really holds Detroit away from 100 win territory is that Willie Hernandez will never come close to the greatness of his actual 1984 season. The computer simply will not utilize a closer for 140 innings the way Hernandez was employed back then, even though I've tried tinkering with relief pitcher stamina in order to better represent that. Willie was good for a mere 58 innings (2.78 ERA) which means that almost 100 innings were pitched by far inferior players, thus contributing to the 10 win shortcoming in the final record.