Highest Batting Average for a season?

Phillies1000 · 04-09-2003, 10:13 AM

I can't seem to remember how to attach an image if someone can remind me I would appreciate it. However, I wanted ask what the highest batting averages are that people have seen in a current season. I saw a third baseman in my single player fictional league hit .417 with 35 HR and 131 RBI this year.

Cole · 04-09-2003, 11:08 AM

My highest I believe is .451 .... but it must also be taken into consideration that this was a league where 50 game seasons were played.

Cuss16 · 04-09-2003, 11:52 AM

one of my guys hit .398 with 50 HR and 130 RBI's.

Smellyface · 04-09-2003, 12:20 PM

In the CBBL, we have played from 2002 and are in 2025 now. We play a full 162 game schedule, and one of the players hit .436 on the season. The year before he hit .427. No one else has ever broken .400.

OldGiants · 04-09-2003, 01:23 PM

I had a fictional league with .400 hitters galore. One player for Colorado hit .441 as his highest and was at .402 lifetime after eight seasons. He finished with .392, which was only the second highest lifetime BA in that league (by less than a point)

As many pointed out, these anomalies are correctable by tweaking the Era settings. If you want more .400 hitters, just add hits; fewer, do the opposite.

ctorg · 04-09-2003, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by OldGiants
As many pointed out, these anomalies are correctable by tweaking the Era settings. If you want more .400 hitters, just add hits; fewer, do the opposite.

It's because of this that asking what the most/highest anything is somewhat irrelevant. I could make a league where batters regularly hit over .500. It all depends on the settings.

Unfriendlybob · 04-09-2003, 03:13 PM

Yeah those league totals adjusting will get you sometimes. I had a guy (Jimmie Foxx in a historical league) bat .399 with 82 HR and 215 RBI. Needless to say I adjusted the league totals for the next year. Almost every team in the league was batting over .300. The weird thing is it seemed to happen all of a sudden. All the years before that (almost 30 years) the numbers were perfect... oh well.

Specs · 04-09-2003, 05:23 PM

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Originally posted by OldGiants
I had a fictional league with .400 hitters galore. One player for Colorado hit .441 as his highest and was at .402 lifetime after eight seasons. He finished with .392, which was only the second highest lifetime BA in that league (by less than a point)

As many pointed out, these anomalies are correctable by tweaking the Era settings. If you want more .400 hitters, just add hits; fewer, do the opposite.

Somebody please confirm what he just said is true, because if so, the biggest problem that existed with OOTP has now been fixed!!! Or am I imagining that even the newest of players had to figure out that you did the opposite in previous versions...?

I Am The Game · 04-09-2003, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by Specs
Somebody please confirm what he just said is true, because if so, the biggest problem that existed with OOTP has now been fixed!!! Or am I imagining that even the newest of players had to figure out that you did the opposite in previous versions...?

I thought that it's always been if you want more hits you subtract from the league totals, you want fewer hits you add to the league totals.

It's not really a problem either way (whether I am wrong or right). There's a long and twisted explanation on why it's like that, and it does make sense.

Specs · 04-09-2003, 05:45 PM

First, my reply to the topic: Chris Ritter, my all time favorite player, obviously generated from my last name somehow getting into the file, once hit .443. I outlined his team and it's amazing ten all stars, the greatest one I'd ever had, in an ill-fated but well meaning thread about a year ago in the dynasty reports section.

Ritter once had a 71-game hit streak, didn't have 5,000 career at bats due to lack of durability, and could never take a walk, but did average .369, 23 hr, and 35 steals a year. Amazingly enough, despite all this, he couldn't top Ty Cobb's .367 career average.

Second, I was aware of how the system worked, but for a fleeting moment thought that perhaps it had been changed to be more user-friendly for newbies.

smeyers003 · 04-09-2003, 06:10 PM

I had a guy batting .455 at the All Star break, but he slumped in the second half of the season and ended up at .361.

Highlander · 04-09-2003, 07:13 PM

In my historical league, the HBL, Rogers Hornsby hit .440 in 1922. The next highest in the NL was at .369. The AL had 2 guys at .374 and .373. The NL League average was .276, while the AL was .283.....if anything, they were a bit low for that year. Just an amazing year by "Rajah"

tcblcommish · 04-09-2003, 09:32 PM

Shoeless Joe Jackson in my historical league hit .423 one season and then hit .408 the next season. Only guy that hit .400 ever in my 18 year league

bigphesta · 04-09-2003, 09:57 PM

.420

ctorg · 04-10-2003, 09:21 AM

Yes, it is still set up that you have to add hits to lower batting averages and subtract hits to raise them. The same reverse addition and subtraction is true of all the other league totals ratings. I used to have a problem with this, but when I really looked at it, I realized it was probably better the way it is. As stated above, there is a good explanation for it.

OldGiants · 04-10-2003, 10:10 AM

When I said, "just add hits" folks took that too literally. I wasn't giving a step-by-step discription of the process of the actual process of chaniging the settings. I simply meant what I said, if you want more hits, or anything else, make more of that happen.

That you increase things by lowering the numbers is a quirky part of OOTP that makes discussing the issue cumbersome.

04-09-2003, 10:13 AM	#1
Phillies1000 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: New Orleans, LA (originally from NJ) Posts: 49	Highest Batting Average for a season? I can't seem to remember how to attach an image if someone can remind me I would appreciate it. However, I wanted ask what the highest batting averages are that people have seen in a current season. I saw a third baseman in my single player fictional league hit .417 with 35 HR and 131 RBI this year. __________________ Phillies going all the way!

04-09-2003, 11:52 AM	#3
Cuss16 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: BC, CANADA Posts: 2,994	one of my guys hit .398 with 50 HR and 130 RBI's. __________________

04-09-2003, 12:20 PM	#4
Smellyface Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 211	In the CBBL, we have played from 2002 and are in 2025 now. We play a full 162 game schedule, and one of the players hit .436 on the season. The year before he hit .427. No one else has ever broken .400. __________________ Corked Bat Baseball League

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Highlander All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 977	In my historical league, the HBL, Rogers Hornsby hit .440 in 1922. The next highest in the NL was at .369. The AL had 2 guys at .374 and .373. The NL League average was .276, while the AL was .283.....if anything, they were a bit low for that year. Just an amazing year by "Rajah" __________________ "The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor." — Cincinnati Gazette editorial, 1879

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ctorg Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 9,848	Yes, it is still set up that you have to add hits to lower batting averages and subtract hits to raise them. The same reverse addition and subtraction is true of all the other league totals ratings. I used to have a problem with this, but when I really looked at it, I realized it was probably better the way it is. As stated above, there is a good explanation for it. __________________ My music "When the trees blow back and forth, that's what makes the wind." - Steven Wright Fjord emena pancreas thorax fornicate marmalade morpheme proteolysis smaxa cabana offal srue vitriol grope hallelujah lentils

04-09-2003, 11:08 AM	#2
Cole Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick Posts: 2,685	My highest I believe is .451 .... but it must also be taken into consideration that this was a league where 50 game seasons were played.

04-09-2003, 01:23 PM	#5
OldGiants Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 211	I had a fictional league with .400 hitters galore. One player for Colorado hit .441 as his highest and was at .402 lifetime after eight seasons. He finished with .392, which was only the second highest lifetime BA in that league (by less than a point) As many pointed out, these anomalies are correctable by tweaking the Era settings. If you want more .400 hitters, just add hits; fewer, do the opposite.

04-09-2003, 03:13 PM	#7
Unfriendlybob Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Georgia Posts: 16	Yeah those league totals adjusting will get you sometimes. I had a guy (Jimmie Foxx in a historical league) bat .399 with 82 HR and 215 RBI. Needless to say I adjusted the league totals for the next year. Almost every team in the league was batting over .300. The weird thing is it seemed to happen all of a sudden. All the years before that (almost 30 years) the numbers were perfect... oh well.

04-09-2003, 06:10 PM	#11
smeyers003 Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 416	I had a guy batting .455 at the All Star break, but he slumped in the second half of the season and ended up at .361.

04-09-2003, 09:32 PM	#13
tcblcommish Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 3,439	Shoeless Joe Jackson in my historical league hit .423 one season and then hit .408 the next season. Only guy that hit .400 ever in my 18 year league

04-09-2003, 09:57 PM	#14
bigphesta Banned Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Des Moines, Iowa Posts: 1,366	.420

04-10-2003, 10:10 AM	#16
OldGiants Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 211	When I said, "just add hits" folks took that too literally. I wasn't giving a step-by-step discription of the process of the actual process of chaniging the settings. I simply meant what I said, if you want more hits, or anything else, make more of that happen. That you increase things by lowering the numbers is a quirky part of OOTP that makes discussing the issue cumbersome.