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Originally Posted by chucksabr
I put it in terms of ERA+ and OPS+ because those are already rate stats, and the whole 3-yr recalc double season and all that strikes me as more or less a way to convert counting stats across three years to rate stats so they can be applied to player projections in the game. If that's the case, then might as well talk in terms of rate stats that are already there.
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Ya, for sure. I was just meaning that I was taking your word for those ratings, because for me, I don't really pay much attention to ratings except as comparison from one player to the next. Like if I'm trying to decide who would be the best guy to pinch hit:
Who of my bench guys has the best ratings vs LHP? But the number itself is pretty meaningless to me... But I get what you are saying
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Originally Posted by chucksabr
Anyhoo—if the game does what Markus says and a league operator decides to change the "weaken" default from 50 to zero, then what would be the alternative except for the game to simply adjust everyone to league average, including Ricky Pickett, Jim Paciorek, and the rest of them? The only alternative would be that the game ignores Markus's directive to do so on its own and decides to make cup of coffee guys replacement players anyway. I wouldn't think the game is artificially intelligent enough to make that decision on its own.
Unless there's a completely other thing neither of us are considering?
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Ya, I agree. As soon as I have time (unless you beat me to it), I'm going to find a handful of guys in a particular season who have very low AB's / IP's, and then run two tests to compare side-by-side ratings: 1) normal weaken settings, vs 2) weaken settings at zero... and then see if there's a difference...