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Originally Posted by Pelican
I happen to be replaying the 1938 season. I decided to turn off the color line, and allow signing of Negro League players ass free agents. I am trying to deal with the ratings on a one-by-one basis, based on available stats from Seamheads and other sources, with particular emphasis on the head-to-head matchups that did occur with white MLB players after the season, barnstorming. One issue I have for 1938 is that numerous top players like Paige, Bell, Leonard vanished from the records, because they solely played overseas in the Dominican Republic or elsewhere. They don’t even exist in the OOTP database for 1938, because they did not play in the Negro Leagues, the only entry point. I’ve had to devise ratings based on their most recent U.S. seasons. Thoughts on that?
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Yeah, this is problematic - akin to Williams etc during the war. But the fact is that this is precisely why recalc is not an option for realistic NeL performance in-game.
My profiles may offer an acceptable band-aid workaround.
If you DL my spreadsheet for the player(s) in question, you could figure out some stats to use for generating ratings in keeping with the player's general career path at that point.
Go into the IMPORT DATA B tab of the spreadsheet. You'll see there a series of calculations. You can change this percentage if you want and the stats will move accordingly.
Take Buck as an example. 1938 is his age-31 season, which is pretty much his peak period. So let's allocate him 110% to reflect him reaching his potential. It's already in this tab, showing the following stats:
550 AB - 195 H - 36 2B - 10 3B - 24 HR - 92 BB - 4 HBP - 50 SO
Enter these stats into the editor and hit the create ratings button for both CURR and POT.
That should set his ratings for both to these stats and give you an appropriate version of him for 1938 based on my methodology of generating ratings.
Pitchers are more problematic because of the individual pitch ratings. You would need to go through the whole process as set out in my manual, using the stats and pitch ratings appropriate to that part of the player in question's career.
Let's use Satchel as the example here.
First, use the 110% stats in the IMPORT DATA P tab of the spreadsheet.
I would, however, be reluctant to use the 110% markup for pitch ratings as it makes the pitcher a bit too good IMHO. So I'd just check the pitch ratings in the editor are close to those shown as FINAL in my spreadsheet and edit them if needed to bring them in line. They might not even have moved so this may not be necessary, I'm not sure as I haven't come across this before and am thinking on the fly.
So for Satchel the stats would be:
250 IP - 8 HRA - 74 BB - 3 HBP - 207 K
And the individual pitch ratings:
190 FB - 85 SINKER - 178 CUTTER - 104 CURVE - 58 SLIDER - 86 CHANGE - 51 FORK - 83 SCROOGE
Of course, if you've just been using the game-generated pitch ratings for him to this point this might be anomalous to what was there for 1937 and will be there when his OOTP database stats reappear.
Like I said, problematic - if not downright messy. You'll just have to use your own discretion to get it to work how you see fit.
Hope that's at least of some help.
G