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Originally Posted by atlbrave1
Pretty sure the error modifiers aren't working as noted in thread here:
http://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/s...d.php?t=345128
While the % change does not seem drastic, due to the way fielding % is calculated the difference in 1908 for example is 1 baserunner per game. That's not the whole cause obviously, but would appear to be one cause as the fielding % is pretty much constant in the screenshot which does not align to historical events. |
I think this is the culprit. I'm not seeing nearly enough errors in 1901, and I don't think I've seen a two base throwing error yet.
Edit: Let's take 1908. The fielding percentage that year was ,959. The OOTP fielding percentage was .987. That's less than one third of the errors actually committed during the real season, and I think it would be more than one baserunner per game. Something like thirty percent to one-third of the runs scored in 1908 were unearned. The difference is enough to reduce runs scored by 20% or so. I've done a bit of rounding and mental arithmetic instead of being careful, but I'm in the ballpark. As the actual fielding percentage goes up over the years, the discrepancy shrinks, which is what happened in the table in the original post.