This seems wrong

[clwalcott]

I play out every game, so no "sim" in the sense of pushing a button. I used to take pitch regularly on the first pitch but then realised it just inflated OBP and my team became essentially unbeatable, so now I always "swing away" unless stealing bases. Anyway, I've played 20 games now, with Colorado (yes, Coors, I know) and my team average is .329. .329. Not a misprint. I KNOW it's only 20 games, but the next highest average is .274. I have 136 runs. Next closest is forty runs adrift - 2 runs a game!!! Again, I know Coors but...something weird has got to be going on...

[clwalcott]

Eric Young is 24 of 46...I mean, I know these are small sample sizes but it seems excessive

[Markus Heinsohn]

Exactly, small sample size, nothing else.

[clwalcott]

Alright cool, perhaps I'm being neurotic, thanks Markus

[JMDurron]

Originally Posted by clwalcott

Eric Young is 24 of 46...I mean, I know these are small sample sizes but it seems excessive

I once made it into mid-May of a historical game with Jerry Remy as the MLB leader in RBIs. Jerry. Remy. Weird things happen in small sample sizes, and the "problem" corrected itself as the season went on.

I could easily see a combination of hitters on a hot streak, opposing pitchers who suck/are cold those days, and Colorado's ballpark leading to such crazy hitting numbers in such a time period.

[redranger]

Just wait until he hit that 20 game streak and your team bats a whopping 220 while the rest of the league hits an average of 280. It all evens out over the course of a marathon season

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by redranger

Just wait until he hit that 20 game streak and your team bats a whopping 220 while the rest of the league hits an average of 280. It all evens out over the course of a marathon season

Exactly. If we start out hitting .220 over 20 games and then hit .329 over the next 20, and even out, we don't notice the .329 so much.