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Old 03-19-2026, 05:28 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Murcer View Post
I haven't had a chance to test this yet myself but, out of curiosity, how does your OPS leaderboard look? In previous versions I believe right handed hitters were overrepresented in fictional leagues as compared to real-life MLB. In many of the tests I did in OOTP26, the top 10-20 in career OPS would be completely dominated by right handed hitters.

I pulled this from Fangraphs:

Top 100 MLB players in career wOBA born between 1930 and 1985, min 7,500 pa
Right handed hitters = 52
Left handed hitters = 38
Switch hitters = 10

I used that criteria because I wanted to exclude the early-days players and wanted to include retired (or nearly done) players.
To add to this, how many players each season do you see with a "bad" OPS? I ran a few seasons and had between 15-20 players each year with more than 450 PAs and a sub .650 OPS. IRL MLB usually sees about half of that. This was a problem in 26 and appears to be an issue in this version as well.
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