Quote:
Originally Posted by Reed
Using 1984 as a base and depending on how many players are in the league and how many “outliers”, it is possible for Ruth to have 1,000 career home runs. That boggles my mind.
|
I'm not sure about that. I was having a PM discussion with "Mr. Watts", and he correctly pointed out that not only would Ruth have to dominate his era (which he did in spades), but he would also have to come in at a time with fewer power hitters in your league, because in 1984, there are about 125 HR per team to go around (3,258 HR/26 teams). That means that when I play with 1984 settings in a 16-team league, there are about 2,000 HR to go around in any given season. Babe's not playing in a world where he's the only power hitter in the game anymore. Home Run Baker might grab 30-40 of them (despite his career high being 12). Shoeless Joe can easily do 20+ despite only having a double digit HR season once (12 in his final season before he was booted from the league). He hit 37 one year in my league, and went 20+ a total of nine times. Home Run Baker did not get his nickname for nothing.
In that test league I showed numbers from earlier, there were three 19th century players who hit 20+ HR for the season. Billy O'Brien (28), Bobby Lowe (24), and Walt Wilmot (23) combined for 75 HR for the year. They also hit 161 combined HR in their RL careers, which doesn't make any sense, until you remember that they were considered power hitters based on their stats relative to other players in the time they played, so they each came in with a Home Run Power rating of 4 on the 1 to 5 scale.
Babe Ruth was definitely a man among boys in the time he played, and will definitely be a beast, but he will be a man among men in Random Debut as there will be players from all eras who can hit for power. He will still top the HR leaderboard. He just may not lap the field like we think he should. In that 63 year OOTP16 RD that I like to bore you guys with, I saw 1 60+ HR season, 9 50+ HR seasons, 90 40+ HR seasons, 0 700+ HR careers, 5 600+ HR careers, and 13 500+ HR careers. If Ruth gets a full career to make a run at it whenever I see him, he should be at or near the top, but 1984 settings make it tough to amass huge milestone numbers, and that's what I like about a lot of the 1980s seasons. Guys have to earn it.
Now, if you want to use 2017 settings, or 2019 settings when OOTP21 comes out, all bets are off. The sky's the limit in that scenario.
