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Originally Posted by David Watts
To be honest, historical isn't really historical once you start letting guys play seasons they didn't in real life. Shoeless Joe playing the 1921 season is fictional. Sandy Koufax playing past the 66 season is fictional. If one was to clone Babe Ruth in 1927 and put one on each team, I agree it should not result in each Babe Ruth hitting 10 home runs. That being said, what is the solution for a game that is trying to provide a method of replicating historical seasons? Wouldn't getting things as accurate as possible in terms of true hisorical play be the most important thing?
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You could have both accurate true historical play and plausible alternative historical play if the ratings could produce historical output. But the ratings are defective and can't do that.
You recognize the multiple Babes hitting 10 HRs is ludicrous. Look at the guy posting about SBs in 24.
I don't know why this argument exists and why Garlon is so strongly defending LTMs. Matt said in my stat update only thread that with better ratings the effect of LTMs is reduced. It's obvious the goal is to eliminate them.
However I was told privately that Matt is lying. And Garlon said as much in the thread with his instance LTMs would always be necessary.
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