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Originally Posted by Garlon
... [it] will add in an extra 10 AB at some level of performance to get to 200. I don't know how the nudging AB are handled but they are not counted as 0 hits in those AB. There is some replacement level used. Hopefully that level is tied to the given season.
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From the man himself a few years ago:
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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
When a player is below the "adjust" limit, his ratings will be adjusted towards the league average, the less playing time he had the more the ratings get adjusted. If a player is below the "weaken" limit, the ratings will also be adjusted, but not towards league average but rather towards replacement level, so that these players end up with rather low ratings.
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So I take that to mean that to fill out AB's to
adjust a player get to 200 for a player who had 150 AB's, those 50 AB's would skew towards
league average.
And to fill out AB's to
weaken a player to get to 40 AB's, who only had 20 AB's, those 20 AB's would skew towards
replacement level.
I also assume, but do not know, that either
league average or
replacement level AB's applied to a player could result in actually improving the player... For example, a guy who in real life went 0-for-20, striking out 18 times would probably be improved by having 20 replacement-level AB's applied to him... I don't know what for sure, though.