How do you handle inflated offense?

[Galeg]

What do you do when your league has become too offense heavy? I have attempted to correct things with the yearly modifiers and met only slight success. Perhaps the changes I made were not extreme enough. I suspect things may just be stuck as they are now that so many superstar level players have developed, but thought it would be worth asking.

[Syd Thrift]

If you’re playing out into the future, then picking a year and auto recalling the ratings based on that year would probably be the way to go. I’m not sure I’d choose a year too far in the past - even if you chose, say, 1991, the huge difference in K rates means that players and pitchers will perform drastically differently. But like 2015, sure. If you set it to auto recalc on Opening Day the game will sim the season 3 times and adjust the modifiers accordingly each time.

[uruguru]

Originally Posted by Galeg

What do you do when your league has become too offense heavy? I have attempted to correct things with the yearly modifiers and met only slight success. Perhaps the changes I made were not extreme enough. I suspect things may just be stuck as they are now that so many superstar level players have developed, but thought it would be worth asking.

Pick a year with a stat balance you prefer and set your league total stats to that. Then lock league total stats to that. Problem solved.

I choose 1962. It's the first year of expansion ball in the NL. 300-strikeout seasons by pitchers are pretty uncommon but can happen, as are 50-homer seasons by hitters. Base stealers do well, too. I like it.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by uruguru

Pick a year with a stat balance you prefer and set your league total stats to that. Then lock league total stats to that. Problem solved.

I choose 1962. It's the first year of expansion ball in the NL. 300-strikeout seasons by pitchers are pretty uncommon but can happen, as are 50-homer seasons by hitters. Base stealers do well, too. I like it.

If you’re importing that whole hog, then suddenly you won’t have or have any need for 13-14 man bullpens either, your starters will suddenly complete a huge chunk of their games (between a quarter and a third of them IRL), and as I alluded to in my post, K rates will be down so far that an awful lot of pitchers who aren’t very good in your current league will become passable because Control and Movement suddenly become more valuable relatively speaking (although Movement, too, is made a bit less valuable because there are fewer HRs) and probably vice versa. Fielding also suddenly gets a ton more important.

If that’s what you want to do going forward in the year 2030 or whatever, then by all means go ahead. Some would call these kinds of wholesale, single season changes to be immersion breaking. It’s your game, play it how you want, just be aware of the consequences.