19th century schedules

[Greatgrampa]

Originally Posted by BaseballMan

Just simmed from 1871-1949 and only had illlegal # of players error one time.
I think it was because i change the setting for injuries to average. I think i will keep it at low till 1900.
Indivual stats dont look to bad. When Ty Cobb bats .367 in rel life and he bats .366 in youtr sim, id say thats pretty close. Oh and Ty played his whole entire career in the sim.
Cy Young only had 380 wins but that was probably cause i went to a 4 man roatation too soon.
Babe Ruth finished with 700 hrs. So far the alltime best.
Im not gonna use drug suspensions till 1970 or later.
I didnt use 40 man rosters but in my next test run i will.
I may try different schedule lengths too. I do know that no matter what the schedule length i would like it to stretch from April to September.
All in all i like the results im seeing. Im not one to focus on how close the whole league does stat wise even though i know it can effect indivual performance. Because i can for the life of me i cant remember which team had the best batting average in 1993 but i can rememeber indivual perormances.
Thats what i like when the induivual stats are close to real life. Not the exact same result but close.

I am surprised that you are getting stats that close to reality since most teams only used 1 pitcher for the first part of those years and some eventually went to 2 pitchers, and even though the teams only played league teams 30 times a year, they played about 60 other games each year against amateur teams, mostly allstars from a particular city or area. And even playing those extra 60 games, they only used one pitcher... Of course pitching wasn't really that important back then. I am wondering if you are getting error stats that are close to matching that era? Many teams were yielding as many as 3 errors per inning. And of course in the beginning it took 9 balls to get a walk so really pitching didn't mean much. Using a four man rotation doesn't seem very realistic to me, at least for the earlier years.
Anyway, interesting reading in this thread.
By the way, this is not intended to criticize anyone for how they are setting up their sims....not my business. Just passing along some information about that era that perhaps some people don't know. I sure would have loved to see infielders playing without regular mitts on their hands. No wonder there were so many errors. OUCH!

[BaseballMan]

well the accuracy i saw is more after 1900. I dont expect 19th century to be as close until we get a good setup and progression going. Im just trying things and making notes of what settings to change that work best at least for me. You are right about the way the game was played back then. I kinda like to let the 19th century have some chaotic flavor to it as if my leagues is developing just like in real life. However the stats have been pretty good. I think i will use a position player when a team's only pitcher is injured. I had one player start 92 games and im trying to keep it where any record has a chance of being broken during any season after 1900. I will just accept that pitchers pitching durring 60 game seasons wont rack up 300 wins unless i have 1 man rotations. I will start the HOF 20 yuears after the league begins to give the 19th century players a chance at the hall.
James Burke had 432 strikeouts for one season so i will take a look and the next sim and see if that was just a fluke. I cant accept anything above 400
Ill check the errors too. Oh and in next sim i would like to eliminate CEI since im using RAH i dont think its fair to have CEI. However i would like to keep season ending injurys.

[Cryomaniac]

On the one man rotations thing, I used 60 game schedules with games every other day, and the occasional 2 day break for when the game uses 60 game schedules. Along with the endurance settings etc, it gives a pretty realistic one man rotation usage. I know the schedules can't be that accurate, since in reality there were double headers and the like, but it's close.

On the subject of double headers, I once accidentally had a guy start both parts of a double header, he did quite well actually, only threw 80 pitches in the game, but wasn't aweful.