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Originally Posted by Anyone
In the league settings, stats/ai tab just change the modifiers to lower the offense some. You could have only half as many hits as normal if you wanted and batting averages lower than the pitching dominated mid-60's (definitely not recommended to do anything that radical, just an example) if you made the hits modifier .500.
Next preseason, pick a real life year you want the stats to emulate and enter it and then auto-calc mdofiers-- this won't work during the season, but you can adjust the modifiers-- you just can't hit a target exactly if done during the season. It takes the ability of the players in the league into account for the auto-adjust, so after doing that next preseason you'll end up with the league totals almost exactly the same as for that year as the real life year you choose to emulate (it gives BA/OBP/SLG and they end up for the league at almost exactly that spot).
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Don't have to use auto-calc. Just select the year in the "Totals from year" box. The game will do the rest. Pick the historical season with the offensive environment that suits you best, and away you go. No muss, no fuss. For best results, do it the day before Opening Day every year. Also, after picking the year you want, look up the BABIP for that year
here, because the game seems to run it a bit hot, which will inflate your numbers, and input that BABIP into the box after importing your season totals.
For example, I use 1984 for my LTMs, and the game says the BABIP should be .289 for that year, but it was in fact .286, so that's what I input. Also, when your LTMs have been adjusted, some things in the strategy settings will be modified. The main ones are the two "hook" settings for starters and relievers. I like those at default, but others may like them some other way. For some reason, they are modified in the process of the LTM adjustment. Not sure what else gets modified in the strategy settings, but keep an eye on it, just in case.
In order to help you make your choice, the batting numbers from each historical season are
here. The pitching numbers are in the BABIP link given above. It's easy peasy. No mucking around with LTMs without having a clue of what the outcome will be. The game does it for you.
