[Joelman111]

Hey all, I've been working on setting up the perfect fictional league that roughly matches MLB statistical output from the early-mid 2010s. I've noticed that BABIP plays a large role in how the best pitchers perform in the league.

Specifically, for the first few years in the league the BABIP starts around .280 and I have several pitchers with an ERA below 3 (league ERA is about 4). Then, the BABIP slowly creeps upwards over time until it hits about .305 at which point there are almost never pitchers with an ERA below 3 (maybe 2 a year at most). Yes, the batting average always increases over this time as well, no matter what I set the contact PCM to (I've ranged from .9 to 1.1 without seeing this trend change). I had the BABIP set to .298 the entire time on my LTM page.

Any idea on how to stabilize this? Does the LTM BABIP actually do anything?