See that "Select Year" box at the top of all the numbers? I use that on the day before Opening Day every year to import stats settings for my league. Works like a charm. I don't use auto-calc. I select the year from 1871 through 2018 that I want to use the day before each Opening Day.
I do it the day before Opening Day, because that's the point at which team rosters will be set as much as they can be for the coming season. It's the absolute latest in the offseason that you can do it, so that's when I do it. In my case, the year is 1984, but you may prefer a different offensive environment. Not only does it import the actual numbers from that season, but it also adjusts the LTMs in one fell swoop.
1984: 4.26 R/G, 3.81 ERA, .260/.323/.385/.708, 0.78 HR/9
Judging from your post, you may prefer more offense in your game. My suggestion is to take a season from
this list and/or
this list that suits your statistical fancy, and select that year the day before Opening Day. I find this method works better than auto-calc, and definitely better than "lock league totals". "Lock league totals" only seems to be concerned with AB, H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, HBP, K, and BABIP. It doesn't seem to concern itself with anything else like fielding, pitcher stamina, GB% etc, etc, etc. Anything below those nine categories will not be controlled which can really mess up your results.
I also uncheck all the "automatically adjust..." boxes, and just use this method every year. I just discovered that the RL BABIP in 1984 was actually .286, and not .289 like the game seems to think it is. I'm hoping this will help with results that seemed to get "hotter" after OOTP16 for some reason, but we shall see. Any questions? Fire away.
