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Originally Posted by Beirnej1
Great to see you posting about your league again.
Are you still using 1984 for the output/strategy?
Question for ya on settings. I know before each season you change the strategy year. Do you change the hook settings? Or just leave it at whatever the game generates for that particular season you’re in?
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Thanks Beirnej1. We'll see how long it lasts. Really upset to hear about Spritze when David Watts told me about it. He was so helpful to me, and so mind bogglingly efficient, comprehensive, and patient with the databases.
The strategy year stays locked actually. Once I've set it for 1901, I uncheck the auto-import strategy settings box on both pages it's on, and it stays in place. In 1903, I forgot to reset the BABIP (to .286), the two Hook Settings (to Default), and the Bunting setting (back to Normal), as they all seem to change once I select 1984 for my output. The Hook Settings (very quick for starters, and slow for relievers) resulted in the leaders being off by about 15 or 20 innings from where I like to see them, and offense went up, probably because crappy bullpen pitchers were filling the gap for the starters who were getting the hook too quickly. It also slows down the hook for relievers, which probably added to the issue.
If I were to reset the strategy year to 1984 every year, it would bork the financials because they'd follow suit, which would make for a hot mess, if you're in the early 20th century. I just have to remember to catch the strategy settings that get reset when I set the stats output, and things run pretty smoothly.
Interestingly so far in the league, league wide HR are perfect (RL: 125.31 per team season, OOTP: 125.88), but that's not trickling down to the individual hitters. The single season record is 34, set by Vern Stephens in 1901. Vinny Castilla (1903 and 1904), and Richie Sexson have hit 32 HR in a season, and that's it for 30+ HR guys in four seasons. It might be that there's a huge amount of HR hitters in the game right now, so there are more people to spread it around to. As long as the league wide numbers are good, I'm fine with it. I think my OOTP16 game started this way as well, so we'll see what happens.