As you said in the opening post, your talent distribution is probably causing these cartoon character seasons. Hopefully it rights itself because if you're anything like me, talent balance (not necessarily between teams, but across the league) is very important to you. Mine has been very good so far. In my first two seasons, I've only had one player get 10+ WAR in a season. Mike Donlin had 10.9 WAR in the inaugural season of 1901. It is only two seasons (Very, very small sample size), but I think that demonstrates pretty good league balance. I'm using 1984 for stats output and strategy settings.
Almost looks like you've got 10 stiffs (or more) for every very good to great player. All you can do is keep slogging and hope it comes around, unless you don't care if it does. In that case, carry on!
