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Originally Posted by thehef
"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.
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I honestly don't know if that's fair. In my quest to create better sims for my gameplay, I have played the early 1960s seasons more times than I would like to admit.
I have seen Harmon Killebrew hit 50+ homers more often than anyone else and he even had one 60-homer season. Mantle, Maris and Mays consistently drop 50+ bombs in random seasons. Maris did hit 62 once! I also saw Al Kaline hit 50+ in a 1962 season when I had injuries turned down.
But by far the craziest I ever saw was Jimmie Hall hitting FIFTY-SEVEN (57) homers in a 1963 sim (he hit 33 irl). It was so shocking that, when I used to trade with the AI, I was always irrationally trying to trade for him to play SS for me. Of course he never came close to that in any other sim.
So the potential for those guys to do it is always there even if we don't see it as much as we'd like.