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Old 06-12-2017, 02:09 PM   #25
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Just for kicks, I started a 1919 game with historical minors.I checked Harry Swacina, who was the Shreveport Gasser starter at 1B, and I looked at the real life pitching stats in OOTP. This is easily verifiable by anyone else who wants to do the same thing..

Among other absurdities:

1. Swacina is listed as having pitched over 200 innings for the 1914 Baltimore Terrapins, a Federal League team, and striking out over 300 batters. I and everyone else have reliable Federal League stats. Swacina never pitched an inning for the Terrapins.
2. According to OOTP, Swacina then came back and had a 7-7 record for the Terrapins in 1915, striking out over 12 batters per 9 innings. Once again, the real Swacina never pitched an inning for the team.
3. He is listed with the identical 7-7 record for the 1919 Shreveport Gassers despite not having a record of having pitched for them in any other source.
4. Every listed season has Swacina with exactly a .500 W-L record and striking out over 12 batters per nine innings. No one in the deadball era had that strikeout rate. I suppose it could happen with a small sample size, but I can confidently say that these stats are wrong. Every season at exactly .500 doesn't pass a reality check.

My only conclusion has to be that these "Real Life" stats were invented or erroneously compiled rather than pulled from Spalding or Reach.
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