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Originally Posted by DamnYankees
What's going on with the power numbers? I know you said that your league totals end up mirroring the real life totals, but with the naked eye, it sure doesn't look like it. The year is now 1948, and we should be right in the middle of the power era stretching from The late 20s to te early 60s. But as of now, only 5 active players have as many as 225 homers, and their ages are 39, 37, 39, 38, and 35. Only 1 player on the top 25 active homer list is under 30 (Ray Kress) and he has only hit 88! Also, only 1 man has even hit 400 home runs.
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I imported a RL league to look at the 1947 stats and there were 9 players with 30-40 HR's. Then there were 8 players with 20-29 HR, for a total of 17 players with 20-40. Also there were 38 players with 10-19 HR's.
In the TWB's 1947 season, there were just 5 players with 30-40 HR's, but there were 16 with 20-29 HR's (incl. 3 with 29) for a total of 21. That's 4 more players with 20-40 HR's than in RL. We also had 45 players with 10-19 HR's.
Looks to me like that is extremely realistic. I'm very, very happy with those results. If anything, we are lacking 1 or 2 top-notch sluggers and have more near-top & mid-range guys.
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If someone knows of a place where I can see the real "active leaders" as of 1948, I'd love to see it. Baseball-Reference doesn't seem to have this ability.
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This is the best I could find.