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uruguru · 04-17-2023, 12:45 PM

According to League Settings, in my save the League BABIP is .283

All historical pitchers have various levels of Pitcher BABIP. The editor gives them a value of 1 to 250, presumably based on their real-world performance for the current season.

Conversely, pitchers created fictionally have no Pitcher BABIP value, setting them to the "default" value which purports to generate a default value of .312 --- almost 30 points worse than the league average.

Setting a Pitcher BABIP of about 135 (on a scale of 1-250) will change the pitcher's expected BABIP to the league average.

How should this work? Should fictional pitchers:

a) Have the current default (i.e. 30 pts worse than average)

b) Have the league average

c) Have some variable value

I tend to think b) because, for historical players, I assume the BABIP is recalculated based on each season's performance. Since pitchers can't historically control their BABIP, giving a pitcher a BABIP that will be permanently better or worse than the league average doesn't seem appropriate.

Or, which is also possible, am I completely misunderstanding something about how this rating works?

04-17-2023, 12:45 PM	#1
uruguru All Star Starter Join Date: May 2022 Posts: 1,373	Pitcher BABIP is not set for generated fictional players... is this intended? According to League Settings, in my save the League BABIP is .283 All historical pitchers have various levels of Pitcher BABIP. The editor gives them a value of 1 to 250, presumably based on their real-world performance for the current season. Conversely, pitchers created fictionally have no Pitcher BABIP value, setting them to the "default" value which purports to generate a default value of .312 --- almost 30 points worse than the league average. Setting a Pitcher BABIP of about 135 (on a scale of 1-250) will change the pitcher's expected BABIP to the league average. How should this work? Should fictional pitchers: a) Have the current default (i.e. 30 pts worse than average) b) Have the league average c) Have some variable value I tend to think b) because, for historical players, I assume the BABIP is recalculated based on each season's performance. Since pitchers can't historically control their BABIP, giving a pitcher a BABIP that will be permanently better or worse than the league average doesn't seem appropriate. Or, which is also possible, am I completely misunderstanding something about how this rating works? Last edited by uruguru; 04-17-2023 at 01:01 PM.