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Ksyrup · 04-16-2002, 04:49 AM

I spent all of last night running test sims trying to get league settings that gave me the kind of stats I was looking for. One thing I noticed early on is that it is damn near impossible to produce with fictional players the range of stats that Deadball Era players produced, in terms of strikeouts, ERA, and BA. In order to get pitcher's ERA leaders under 2.00, I'm dropping batting averages too far, and vice versa. It's hard to produce pitchers with ERA around 1.50 and hitters with batting averages over .350, unless you alter some of the hitters.

So, I'm just going with settings that aren't going to be 100% accurate, but that will allow me to re-create what a reasonable alternate baseball league would have looked like in the early 1900's - I'll be satisfied with that.

I don't have them here and I changed them frequently, but I think this is what I came up with last night:

AB - 100000
H - 27500
2B - 4000
3B - 400
HR - 12500
BB - 12500
HBP - 1500
SO - 34000

My only issue is with BB/SO - I don't know what was reasonable for hitters or pitchers in terms of number of of walks and strikeouts back then. Can anyone help me out? What did the league leaders in hitters and pitchers walks and strikeouts average during the first decade or so? Thanks!

04-16-2002, 04:49 AM	#16
Ksyrup Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 413	I spent all of last night running test sims trying to get league settings that gave me the kind of stats I was looking for. One thing I noticed early on is that it is damn near impossible to produce with fictional players the range of stats that Deadball Era players produced, in terms of strikeouts, ERA, and BA. In order to get pitcher's ERA leaders under 2.00, I'm dropping batting averages too far, and vice versa. It's hard to produce pitchers with ERA around 1.50 and hitters with batting averages over .350, unless you alter some of the hitters. So, I'm just going with settings that aren't going to be 100% accurate, but that will allow me to re-create what a reasonable alternate baseball league would have looked like in the early 1900's - I'll be satisfied with that. I don't have them here and I changed them frequently, but I think this is what I came up with last night: AB - 100000 H - 27500 2B - 4000 3B - 400 HR - 12500 BB - 12500 HBP - 1500 SO - 34000 My only issue is with BB/SO - I don't know what was reasonable for hitters or pitchers in terms of number of of walks and strikeouts back then. Can anyone help me out? What did the league leaders in hitters and pitchers walks and strikeouts average during the first decade or so? Thanks!