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Originally Posted by fredbeene
Doesn't POTENTIAL handle all that? He has the potential to hit 61 HR
Unless you import him AFTER he turns 30 then POTENTIAL means nothing.
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Those are for potential ratings, not resulting stats.
The ratings get "converted", so to speak, into stats when you sim a season. If the ratings are designed to have a player hit 40 homers, then you would expect that over many sims for the same season he would average about 40 homers.
The issue with having Maris average 61 home runs is that the natural variation of the sim engine means that he is going to hit more than 61 home runs half of the time. However, repeated sims show that this is clearly NOT the case so his power ratings for that season are tuned somewhere below 61 home runs -or- there is a governor applied that makes home runs less likely as he approaches 61 (this would be observable by tracking monthly totals).
So while Maris might occasionally hit 61 home runs in a 1961 sim, he is going to average a bit lower. Whether that is the correct approach or not is the point of debate.