[Rain King]

I don't see any problem with any of that.

If you are simulating the highest offensive season out of the 3 years involved in Recalc, then players are going to put up better offensive numbers than average across those 3 years. Subsequently, pitchers will put up worse numbers than their average.

You seem to be missing that Recalc and Autocalc are completely separate processes. They are not intertwined. You can use Recalc without using Autocalc and you can use Autocalc without using Recalc.

Also, you seem to be misunderstanding how Recalc works. Hitters do not get better hitter ratings because a season had higher league offense. The ratings are based around the average hitter and a player gets rated by how much better (or worse) they are compared to the average numbers for each season (or set of seasons).

You can completely change the League Totals set for your Autocalc at any point. You can Recalc across 3 seasons and set Autocalc to a completely different environment and then your players are going to play to that environment which might be very different than their real life seasons. This is all customizable.

As I mentioned previously, you can get the results you seem to be expecting...but you would need to change your League Totals to reflect the average across the 3 or 5 years that Recalc is using. I could see the game offering that as an option instead of only having the single season League Totals available to load. I'd probably use that.