Normalized stats

[Orcin]

Perfect Team is normalized to a base year. So does that mean that a player is rated relative to the players that played in his year? In other words, if a 1966 Roberto Clemente was 110% of the average 1966 player, then a PT Clemente will be 110% of whatever ratio exists between the base year stats and the 1966 stats?

I hope I am explaining this question properly. I never use normalized stats in regular OOTP so I don't understand how it works.

[Thalion]

I was wondering something similar to that.

I look at a historical players year and then in the Baseball Reference website to determine how his performance may translate into the game.

[zrog2000]

One of the biggest issues I see is the avoid errors rating for old players. They’re pretty much all awful, but I have a hard time believing that it wasn’t just a difference in scoring between the different eras instead of a real difference in ability.

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by zrog2000

One of the biggest issues I see is the avoid errors rating for old players. They’re pretty much all awful, but I have a hard time believing that it wasn’t just a difference in scoring between the different eras instead of a real difference in ability.

The playing fields are much better today too, especially the infields. I do not know how much OOTP accounts for this but it directly affects fielding percentages. The official scorers were much stricter in those long ago years of my youth too Back in the 50's and early 60's when I was growing up if you bobbled it you almost always got an error charged irregardless. The scorers now seem to look for a reason to make it a hit instead of an error. I think they feel the need to help pad the batting averages in this era of the swing and miss.

[One Post Wonder]

Originally Posted by Orcin

Perfect Team is normalized to a base year. So does that mean that a player is rated relative to the players that played in his year? In other words, if a 1966 Roberto Clemente was 110% of the average 1966 player, then a PT Clemente will be 110% of whatever ratio exists between the base year stats and the 1966 stats?

I hope I am explaining this question properly. I never use normalized stats in regular OOTP so I don't understand how it works.

A dev will clear it up completely, but that is correct as I understand it. For example, I've seen dead ball era cards like Home Run Baker with very high power ratings despite not hitting many HR's IRL. That can only happen if what you're saying is true.

As someone else noted, that doesn't seem to happen with defensive stats, or they don't convert properly. Older catchers seem to be rated too high and errors don't appear to have been adjusted at all.

Talking about errors, it was the infields and overall park quality, it was the gloves, and before 1920 you'd be catching a ball that was dark, scuffed, lopsided, and perhaps covered in a fair amount of spit. It's amazing they caught anything in that era IMO.