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Originally Posted by johnbenchley
So i've been running multiple simulations for historic purposes and i am trying to start at the very earliest (1871) i believe? I've noticed that HR totals do not start adjusting around 1921 like they should. I'm simming into the 60's with the best HR hitters still only hitting around 20-30hrs every year.
I'm using the OOTP development engine setting and stats based on peak seasons.
Has anybody else seen this and is there a fix for it or some setting change?
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Take a look at the actual HR totals for that period. They actually stay pretty low until the late 20s/early 30s, and really don't approach modern-ish levels until the 50s. For the extreme example, when Babe Ruth hit 54 homeruns in 1920, only one other team besides the Yankees hit more than that many as a *team* (the Phillies, who had that ultra short right field fence that would become a bane to pitchers as the decade wore on). Ruth hit almost as many HRs as the 3 bottom teams combined (56 to 54).
Even in 1927 the average team hit 59 HRs or just over 1 every 3 games. If you're doing fictional leagues especially you should probably see league leaders with HRs maybe in the low to mid 20s. If you're doing historical ones, there were basically like 4 or 5 guys in all of baseball who'd figured out the secret of the longball, and if one of those guys is in a slump or is injured, then that's kind of it...