So, again, I just had this running in the background and so wasn't terribly invested in it - if I were actually spending time with this, I'd have had players retire on time and made sure the injury rating was more realistic. Probably would have checked seasonal stats and settings, too...
But I didn't do any of those things. I just turned on free agency and the draft. And I got a lot of extreme results.
To illustrate them, I first give you Tommie Agee:
The slash line is actually really good. In real life, he was .255/.320/.412 - in the game, he was .255/.326/.413. Outstanding accuracy. And there were a number of personal highs that closely mirrored his real career - in the game, his highs for hits, doubles, homers, walks, strikeouts, and steals were 178, 31, 28, 58, 136, and 36. In real life, those bests were 178, 30, 26, 59, 156, and 44.
But he does reflect the extremes I'm talking about in two ways.
First, the replay version of Agee played 13 seasons longer than the real guy. And the second way is on the team he's in.
Look at that 1971 season - most of his numbers dipped to some degree over 1970, but he still posted an outstanding season with a 5.9 WAR.
So what's extreme?
This is the team he played for:
24-138. Scored 431 runs, allowed 930. The four guys who started 25 or more games had a combined record of 12-70 - and two other guys who combined for 33 starts were 7-27.
Incidentally, the team featured two 22-year-old members of the Big Red Machine - George Foster and Dave Concepcion. Foster was basically a replacement level player at 0.2 WAR, and Concepcion was a disaster. A slash line of .199/.242/.240 over 713 PA, and a WAR of -1.7.
And while those Royals were the worst of the worst, at least five other teams (two more in the AL and three in the NL) lost 131 or more games. And at least six teams in league history have won 116 or more.
The league record for runs is 1231 by the '95 Yankees, and for homers it's 310 by the 2031 Rockies....And OK, that's still 14 years away, so maybe that will happen. But among seasons that have been played in real life, the Expos hit 304 homers in 200, while the 2017 Red Sox and 2000 Yankees each hit 296.
So I don't know if anybody else besides me finds any of this interesting, but I'll post a few more tonight before going to bed.