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Originally Posted by Marinersfan51
Out of curiosity, why would someone do a single-season replay with all the inputs being calibrated exactly to what happened in that real season (with the real transactions and lineups and whatnot)? I've never seen the appeal myself, since it doesn't provide anything new that wasn't already covered by the real life season. Since all the variance should be perfectly symmetrical around the actual results, what are you getting out of it besides seeing the real season be replicated very similarly, but not quite the same?
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I'll run it a couple times each version for testing from 1901 to whatever the current year is to get a quick clue as to whether or not anything has changed in the engine. For example, this year you could see the impact of BABIP additions on a couple folks such as Bob Feller.
Below is a top 20 from the last test sim I ran. There are a lot of minor changes that couple potentially skew these results significantly in the engine / database and running the historical norm let's me see if something may have changed such as park factors, ratings, or the way OOTP calculates.