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Originally Posted by LansdowneSt
First, great job with the time and persistence to accomplish the hard part - letting the control group run should be easy!
Second, congrats to Ortiz, Yaz and Lee Smith for their appearances on the leaderboards, because, you know, Go Sox! 
For context, can you give the HR totals for Ruth, Gehring, Ott, Williams and Musial? Curious what the "LTM subtraction" was for the NeL contemporaries. It will be factor for many but as a counting stat, HR's is an easy one to observe the League Total Modifier impact at a glance. |
Thanks bud and, yes, good to see some of the Sox lads at the top.
I perhaps should have mentioned that I manually tinkered with the LTMs to roughly accommodate the NeL guys being there. I just went hunting for historical season totals I thought gave enough upside and applied them EG I used 1940 (1571 HR) for 1932, which had 1358 IRL. Fairly unscientific but seemed to do the job.
Here are those HR totals you asked for:
Ruth 597 (14th)
Gehrig 404 (66th)
Ott 494 (t-30th)
Williams (Ted, I presume) 546 (t-17th)
Musial 503 (t-26th)
From what I am seeing in the early part of the control group, this is something that will need to be addressed at the game level and in the meantime taken into consideration by anyone looking to run an integrated historical MLB sim with anything close to acceptable accuracy. I'm in 1925 just using the default MLB LTMs and Ruth has 175 career HR so far. More pointedly, he is yet to hit 30 or more in a season. Gehrig just broke the record with 35.