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Originally Posted by uruguru
Please allow us to specify the starting year for record-keeping, even if it is not the first year of the league. Even if this just applied to single-season leaderboards (as opposed to career total), it would be a huge improvement since the biggest problem with the historical leaderboards is all of the junk "records" from the 1870s and 1880s. I mean, the rules of the game were significantly different back then.
As someone who grew up in the 1970s, I remember that the cutoff for single-season records was 1900 (i.e. excluding "19th century baseball"). Personally, I would set the cut-off to 1893 since that is when modern rules started but it would be nice if it were user-settable in the League Settings somewhere.
Below are my all-time single season strikeout leaders. It's ridiculous. And the single-season leader in batting average (not shown) is some rando named Levi Meyerle who batted .492 (haha, c'mon) in 26 games in 1871. 26 games!
Will all due respect to 19th century baseball, please figure out a way to let us filter out the guys who pitched when the mound was 45' away, walks required 3 balls, and batters could request a high or low pitch.
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The great Levi Meyerle is no rando. He is one of the greatest hitters of his generation and one of the WORST fielders off all-time.