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Originally Posted by dannibalcorpse
I mean...every MLB season from 1994-1999 had at least one team hit better than .290 for the season, peaking with the Rangers at .293 in 1999. The difference between .293 and .300 with the amount of ABs they had that season (5,651) is 42 base hits over a 162 game season - so basically an extra base hit every 4 games. I've forgotten most of my statistics 101, but I'm pretty sure that should be within the standard deviation for a full season, i.e., not completely insane to have happened.
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The peak numbers in real life are due to situations where skill coincided with everything going right. IOW, randomness. OOTP takes peak performance events that include randomness and treats them as if they are skill only events, allowing randomness on top of that.