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Originally Posted by thehef
I don't mess with league modifiers but have always wondered about this, so I'll ask here: In a season where a player or two (think Ruth in the early 1920's?) accounted for a significant percentage of the league-wide HR's, if that player or two were to get an SEI or CEI early in the season, would the game still "work behind the scenes to ensure accuracy in league-wide totals," thus perhaps overinflating HR totals of other players? Just wondering...
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Yes, but no one player can make that big of a difference. Even in your scenario, by the time you spread Ruth's 50+ homers around 300 players you only have one extra homer for every fifth or sixth player. Plus pitchers hit at that time, so it is even more diffuse in reality. Sure, they don't really get spread around quite that evenly, but you get the point - it is easy to spread 50 homers around several hundred players.