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Originally Posted by thehef
Fair enough. But I don't believe there is the same governor (of sorts) applied to George Brett's 1980 or Rod Carew's 1977 batting avg.
Personally, if I were to do 10 replay sims (1-yr recalc, etc.) for 1961, I'd rather see Maris avg around 61 HR's, as opposed to a low-50 number... even if a few of those seasons were 65, 67, 70... Repeatedly not seeing one of the most-memorable seasons in baseball history play out in a sim is less than ideal, IMO.
"The top single-season homerun hitters will generally not approach their real-life HR numbers even if your game is configured for the most-accurate replay," is not a feature to be advertised  But it's true. |
There's Carew and Brett, but again, what about 1961 Norm Cash? Dude hit .243 in 62 and never hit higher than .283 over the next 13 years of his career. In 61 he hit .361 with 41 bombs.