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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
You're probably doing something in your initial league setup that's creating this problem. But unfortunately I don't know enough from your description to pinpoint exactly where the issue might be. Are you using 2015 as the basis for everything in your settings? Are you doing anything to alter league totals or player creation modifiers?
Keep in mind that there will be standard statistical variations based on probabilities and randomness. For example, your home run totals are completely normal and well within the typical variation that anyone should expect. Your issues with batting averages seem like an actual problem, though. But I've never had any problems like this with fictional leagues.
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That's the thing, I'm not changing anything in the setup at all. I tried adjusting the stats to 2015 in the game in OP to see if it helped. It hasn't.
Just to test it again, I started a brand new fictional league, 30 teams, 162 games. Didn't touch anything else. So default player creation, default stats, etc. I just simmed through 5 years
Year 1:
Top 5 Batting averages
.408 .379 .372 .359 . 355
Top 5 HR totals
59 57 57 57 56
Year 2:
Top 5 batting averages
.361 .361 .357 .354 .352
Top 5 HR totals
63 63 59 59 56
Year 3:
Top 5 batting averages
.375 .364 .360 .354 .350
Top 5 HR totals
64 60 59 56 56
Year 4:
Top 5 batting Averages
.385 .348 .348 .343 .338
Top 5 HR
62 61 60 54 54
Year 5
Top 5 BA
.363 .354 .352 .349 .346
Top 5 HR
70 63 57 52 51
So years 2 and 5 weren't "terrible" but were still 30 points over what the 2019 batting champ hit (which is the metric I'm assuming the game uses for the default setup) And every year featured multiple players hitting north of 350. HR numbers also seem quite high. I didn't look at park factors at all so maybe that had something to di with it. Still, for the default settings, all of this seems incredibly out of proportion, and as I said, I get results like this in pretty much every fictional league I create.