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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Brad has this as his hobby horse because the game designers (I believe rightly) decided that guys with huge outlier seasons shouldn’t be even with or break the outlier seasons 50% of the time (which of course also would mean that a Roger Maris would be as likely to hit 71 Hrs as 51 in 1961 given normal distribution). My fictional league also FWIW had a guy hit 65 in I believe 1962; it was a relatively high HR period and the explosion of the MLB by 25% means that it’s super likely that someone would hit a lot in that period, if not Maris then sure, someone like Dick Stuart or Mantle or Mays or Aaron.
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Why make this personal Syd? The issue is why single out a few players and prevent them from setting records while allowing lesser players to set records? How is this not inconsistent.
The devs insist on random outputs "except". No principle is involved here. Its a selective patch to prevent implausible outputs some of the time. Its a violation of the stated principle of letting randomness have its way on top of the randomness and good luck that produced an unusual (high or low) real life performance on which the player is rated.