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cbbl · 10-19-2021, 01:49 PM

Has anyone unlocked how era_stats.txt are reflected in game? The first few columns (AB through K) are obvious, but after that it gets a bit....challenging.

Let's take something straight-forward like wild pitches. The era_stats.txt line for 1871 says their were 208 wild pitches that year. But the in-game engine only has modifiers. Other era_stats.txt lines are more complicated ... for example, Wild Pitches per IP Out (for 1871, its set to .03081482)

I'm trying to understand what tinkering I can do as I think about starting a fictional league a couple of seasons prior to 1871.

It's interesting, because, for example the 1871 NA season averaged 10.5 runs per game, but games just a year before (including by teams like the professional Cincinnati team) had games in excess of 100 runs. Now, many of these were against far inferior opponents (like the Union Club of Urbana, whom the Red Stockings beat 108-3), but I'd like to understand a bit more about what a typical professional game would have looked like, and perhaps mirror those statistics in the handful of years before 1871.

10-19-2021, 01:49 PM	#1
cbbl All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,179	Era Stats Has anyone unlocked how era_stats.txt are reflected in game? The first few columns (AB through K) are obvious, but after that it gets a bit....challenging. Let's take something straight-forward like wild pitches. The era_stats.txt line for 1871 says their were 208 wild pitches that year. But the in-game engine only has modifiers. Other era_stats.txt lines are more complicated ... for example, Wild Pitches per IP Out (for 1871, its set to .03081482) I'm trying to understand what tinkering I can do as I think about starting a fictional league a couple of seasons prior to 1871. It's interesting, because, for example the 1871 NA season averaged 10.5 runs per game, but games just a year before (including by teams like the professional Cincinnati team) had games in excess of 100 runs. Now, many of these were against far inferior opponents (like the Union Club of Urbana, whom the Red Stockings beat 108-3), but I'd like to understand a bit more about what a typical professional game would have looked like, and perhaps mirror those statistics in the handful of years before 1871. Last edited by cbbl; 10-19-2021 at 01:55 PM.