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Originally Posted by Whoofe
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I get that players can and will have bad seasons. what I am not seeing is Royals pitchers have good seasons as well. I don't know if ballpark factors could have something to do with this, or if the underlying ratings are just poorer than they seem, or if there is a bug. I just wanted to know, everyone else playing this game - out of all the hundreds of you, anyone seeing the opposite? anyone have the Royals make the playoffs in season 1? if its possible to be 15 games below projections, its also possible to be 15 games above, right?
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okay, hit auto-calc. that must have been missed above - reasonable in that mess, i admit.
and yes... if you can be lucky to be 15 over, you can be unlucky to be 15 down.... as far as it being an even distribution and same min max relative to mean etc.. that may or may not be true in real life, but it most likely is in the game. same with each individual stat in the game. individuals have significantly higher volatiity than league-wide #s.
i can't recall if that +/- is purely based on runs scored or takes into consideration rate of conversion of baserunners to runs etc... if the latter is true, then if you cause an inordinate amount of runners to be out relative to normal, that may influence it... you'd have to look up how it's calculated to be certain of what it tells you.
year-to-year league-wide stats get shifted by different players in the leaugue... if you always hit autocalc, they'll be ~near the totals for your league. as long as you hit auto-calc in a fairly average talent year, hitting auto-calc becomes more a preference or a function of some role-play, like league evolution.