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Originally Posted by Garlon
As for random debut leagues, the game was never designed to handle that. You'd really need to translate the player ratings to the new league environment to do that. This standard deviation stuff will not work for that either. Baseball statistics simply do not work that way. The Davenport Translations will allow for play with players from different eras but we do not have the Davenport Translations in the game database. Playing with Tony Gwynn in any other era than his actual career is meaningless in terms of results. He compiled his stats under a given set of playing conditions, so if you put him in the deadball era there is no real value to that. Batting .393 in 1994 is completely different than batting .393 in 1905.
If the way that the ratings are actually made from the stats is not different than in previous OOTP games then historicals are not going to work because the ratings will not be consistent with how the outcomes are generated by the game engine. The absolute values are the ratings the players need because that sets them relative to each other properly. The standard deviation system or setting these rating to 50 as league average or something will cause issues. If you look at major league ERA's there are many more pitcher below the median than above the median because pitchers who do not perform well will get sent down to the minors or will not accumulate as many innings pitched...it is not a normal distribution. Another issues with using some sort of standard deviation is that you need to consider the fact the pitchers have different amounts of Batters Faced and the positon players have different amounts of PA.
In 1921 the average major leaguer hit 6.05 HR per 550 AB. So are we now going to see this as an "average" Power rating of say 50 on the 250 scale? What is Ruth going to have as a rating as he hit 59 HR in 540 AB, nearly 10 times greater than the league average. The scale only goes to 250. So if there is not the same separation between Ruth and the average player in the league when using the absolute ratings then Ruth and other star players will always perform poorly. With absolute ratings this is not an issue because the average player in the league will have a power rating worth about 6 HR per 550 AB and Ruth will be 10 times higher and be much more likely to hit HRs. Whats the standard deviation for HR per 550 AB going to be in 1921, 3 HR (unlikely that the SD ifs going to be more than half the average probably)? Then Ruth, who averaged 60 HR per 550 AB is about18 standard deviations above the mean...how will the rating system be able to handle that? It can't, and therefore the great players will no be so great when you play. Everyone will get pulled toward the mean. The League Totals Modifiers will keep the league average rates correct butt getting realistic player outcomes requires that the player ratings be relative to each other properly and that is done with the absolute values. This pretty much compromises historical play.
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This question may sound dumb because I do not have near the experience of you others with historical random debut. But this my favourite part of the game, I am trying to learn and tailor a setup to my liking using this mode of play.
That said here is the question: Isn’t neutralize stats supposed to take care of the difference in eras?