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Originally Posted by LansdowneSt
Presumably the pitching is better too. Dave, you focused on there being more hitting talent coming in because NeL hitter X entered. So did NeL pitcher Y. So, whomever the 4th pitcher was for the Washington Senators, he just lost a job and Bill Foster is on the mound.
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It's virtually impossible that there would be an equal increase in talent for both hitting and pitching. Talent will be different and so the league should have different output.
Using the proposed method allows the league to have output that shows the talent difference. Running auto-calc on it does not.
An example is random debut where it can be can be easily seen when there is a influx of exceptionally skilled hitters or pitchers. The idea of Ruth having to share his HRs (or Cobb having to share is SBs, etc) isn't logical.
Another place differing talent can be seen is when retire according to history and miss years are turned off. Some people don't want to see Ted Williams spending time in the Marines, Koufax retiring early, or Ken Hubbs, Thurman Munson, Roberto Clemente and Don Wilson dying while active players.