OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post

jcard · 03-26-2024, 10:08 AM

Does anyone have observations on how the distribution of statistics in v25 compare to real-life norms. In limited experience on prior versions, I found the curve to be noticeably flatter than in reality. Looking at the Stats+ pages of online leagues almost universally reinforces this perception. The issue is not so much extreme outliers as far too many players being at what are normally the far tails of the real MLB curves. Using the last league that I studied as an example, the highest wRC+ among qualifiers was 200 (higher than a typical season leader, but also not unprecedented for any given year) while the lowest was 25 (no way you get enough rope to be a qualified hitter with (non)production like that). More concerning, simply because it involves a greater percentage of the players than the outlier cases, is the number of qualified batters with wRC+ either below 60 or above 160 (just to use rough markers of, respectively, non-MLBer and MVP candidate calibers). Similarly, the 95-110 range is underrepresented.

03-26-2024, 10:08 AM	#1
jcard All Star Reserve Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 616 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Distribution of performance Does anyone have observations on how the distribution of statistics in v25 compare to real-life norms. In limited experience on prior versions, I found the curve to be noticeably flatter than in reality. Looking at the Stats+ pages of online leagues almost universally reinforces this perception. The issue is not so much extreme outliers as far too many players being at what are normally the far tails of the real MLB curves. Using the last league that I studied as an example, the highest wRC+ among qualifiers was 200 (higher than a typical season leader, but also not unprecedented for any given year) while the lowest was 25 (no way you get enough rope to be a qualified hitter with (non)production like that). More concerning, simply because it involves a greater percentage of the players than the outlier cases, is the number of qualified batters with wRC+ either below 60 or above 160 (just to use rough markers of, respectively, non-MLBer and MVP candidate calibers). Similarly, the 95-110 range is underrepresented.