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Originally Posted by David Watts
I'm simply worn out. I've tried so many different things tonight and no matter what I try, I end up with way too many extreme seasons. Even just letting the game run year to year is producing way too many wild individual seasons. Even when the league totals are dead on, I get strange seasons.
For example, Andre Ethier hitting .365 and .372 at the age of 23 and 24. .424 and .421 OBP. 1.037 and 1.057 OPS.
What about a cat named Rube Ellis hitting .333 in 1985 and .353 in 86. .260 career average over 4 real seasons from 1909-1912.
This particular league is using the actual 1984 setup. 26 total teams. I have played 3 season, 84, 85 and 86. So far one player Rogers Hornsby has hit 400 (.405) and an amazing 99 more players have hit .314 and higher. 24 players have hit .between .350 and .399. 11 more have hit in the .340's. 27 players have hit in the .330's. Like I said the list cuts off at 100 and that just happens to be .314. Wonder how many more player have hit between .300 and .314.
29 players have finished with an OPS over 1
82 hitters have finished with an OBP above 4
56 players have had 200+ hit seasons. The high is 254. There was also a 251 hit season in there . 2 more have hit 240+. 5 230+ 13 220+
Again this isn't trying to pull things back to a specific year. This is flowing from 84-86 with "import historical modifiers for accuracy checked.
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Just for comparison's sake, here is the complete list of all players in MLB between 1984 and 1986 who a) qualified for the batting title, and b) hit .314 or higher:
1984:
Tony Gwynn .351
Don Mattingly .343
Dave Winfield .340
Wade Boggs .325
Lee Lacy .321
Buddy Bell .315
Chili Davis .315
Ryne Sandberg .314
Alan Trammell .314
1985:
Wade Boggs .368
Willie McGee .353
George Brett .335
Don Mattingly .324
Pedro Guerrero .320
Tim Raines .320
Tony Gwynn .317
Rickey Henderson .314
1986:
Wade Boggs .357
Don Mattingly .352
Tim Raines .334
Steve Sax .332
Tony Gwynn .329
Kirby Puckett .328
Pat Tabler .326
Jim Rice .324
That's 25 players in all. That's it.
25. Not 100ish. 25. That's not luck. That's the distribution of the league-wide stats being off somewhere. If it were 40 or so, no problem, but 100? C'mon.