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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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Think about this.
1927. LTMs run auto calc on the ratings. Ruth/Gehrig combine for about 107 HRS. MLB hits about 922. Cool.
So let's say Ruth/Gehrig are injured in the first game and lost for the season. This is after auto calc has run. Their 107 HRs are lost and MLB hits around 815. That is also cool. Even though it isn't close to historical league totals. Because we know what happened and don't expect it to be close to historical league totals.
Now let's say Ruth/Gehrig are injured in spring training and lost for the season. But on opening day LTMs run auto calc on the ratings and adjust them so other players get the 107 HRs. MLB hits around 922. NOT cool. Because now the individual players aren't producing realistically.
None of this would matter if the ratings could produce realistic per player output. Their totals would put MLB on the money. But the ratings aren't capable of that.
LTMs fix the problem only for dead historical leagues. And most people don't play that way.
Then there's the issue of ratings lost by adjust/weaken are given by the LTMs to players who weren't subject to adjust weaken. The ratings changes should be confined to the pool of players subject to adjust/weaken.
This is a great game. It has faults. Some people pretend it's perfect.