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Originally Posted by cwhitman
I'm a statistician: nothing about the things look wrong. You might disagree with how the distributions work, but there's nothing to lead me to believe that there's something unintended happening. It's entirely a sample size issue.
I think largely you just don't understand how normalization and league totals work, and how in small sample sizes (which are still thousands of PAs, especially with all the different confounding variables happening from game to game) you'll see a lot of difference. League would be far less fun if things were more consistent, and people would be complaining about always losing to the best players if that was the case
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The variance in player performance in Perfect Team are wildly unrealistic, although I get why. Can't have 20+ Honus Wagners in the league all doing roughly the same thing year after year in this format. Importantly, player performance is dependent on the normalization
of league statistics.
I get the feeling the normalization of the yearly statistics is having an effect most don't realize. Normalization will cast a shadow over every at bat, offensively and defensively (or at least after all star break as some have theorized heh). Certainly the devs have given reasons for implementing this in the past, at least regarding the base game. If anyone knows what the testing determined I'd be grateful to be informed.
Anecdotally, for some years (real life years) now my single player fictional leagues always have normalization turned off and it doesn't seem like anything ridiculous is going on. There do seem to be more outliers in individual player performance, although I'm not 100% certain.
PS: I'd love to have a one season trial in PT where normalization was removed. The possible insanity would be too good to miss (what happens regarding a player with a 170+ stat?) , although in most cases it would probably be mundane. Don't know if you don't try though...