[Le Grande Orange]

Teams are supposed to play 154 games, not more than that. Also, what about the seasons with tiebreaking playoff games? Does the lineup file contain the extra three games the Giants and Dodgers played in 1951? The as played schedule won't because these were games only played because of the end-of-season tie in the standings.


There is an important question here: how should OOTP handle historical lineups in regards to tie games and as played schedules? The present situation is not appropriate. I see two possible solutions:

(1) The historical lineups should be modified to remove the tie games, thus allowing the season to be historically competitively correct 140, 154, or 162 games; or

(2) The tie games remain in the lineups file, the as played schedules have the tie games added, and OOTP uses some system to flag those tie games such that when they appear in the day's schedule it automatically applies the historical tie result to that game. That is, rather than simming that game, OOTP instead takes the actual historical box score result and applies it, the players being credited with the stats they actually posted in the real life tie game.

This method allows the players to have their historically correct number of games for acquiring their stats while ensuring the competition for the league pennant is using the historically correct number of counting games. Accuracy at both the player and team/league level is preserved.