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Originally Posted by David Watts
Leagues only been in existence for 10 years. Look how many .400 hitters. Attachment 533510 |
Now...For comparison's sake, here's a screen capture of my OOTP16 league's single season batting average leaders. Keep in mind that this league has now run for 61 seasons (1901-1961), and I use the same technique of tieing the offensive output to 1984, and have been doing so since this thing started. David Watts has at least 33 player seasons in which a player has hit .364 or better in just 10 seasons. I have 13 such seasons in 61 total seasons, almost half of them by the incomparable Shoeless Joe Jackson.
I'm finding (and I'm quite sure David Watts is too) that there are too many extreme individual seasons happening in OOTP18, and I think they were happening in OOTP17 as well. Something has changed since OOTP16, and it has resulted in incredible individual performances almost becoming the norm. I don't know why this is, but you can bet your boots that until it is remedied, I will be sticking with OOTP16 for dynasties that I invest a lot of time in. Like I have said for a while now, it's not the league-wide numbers that are off, so much as the statistical distribution of those numbers. The league-wide numbers look very reasonable to me, but something about extreme individual performances within those league-wide numbers is troubling, at least to me.