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BaseballMan · 03-31-2007, 02:49 PM

I am wanting to start a league in 1871 but i dont care that some options dont work. It just would be nice to start a historical league in 1871 regardless of what options are available. If i can import a 19th century then obviously his ratings can be calculated. Maybe not as good as the modern era but workable. If i want it to be more accurate i can edit the database.

But i think it would be a mistake to try to get accurate stats for a 19th century league or to make it like a modern league. Like its been said there was so many different changes and weird stats like Kilroy throwing 513 strikeouts in a season and a game having an attendence of 6. But just like the real leagues were learning as time went by i think of my league doing the same thing.
So what i want to do is maybe have some fictional ballparks based loosley on
the ballparks of that day and use real historical ballpark names. Maybe start with an 80 game schedule and expand it to 154 by 1903.
Have injuries and fatigue low so i can use a small roster at first.
Then when i arrive at 1901 i want to be able to use the recalc function and have more accurate stats. I do however wish to keep 19th century players from putting records too far out of reach. For example i dont want a player batting .492. If however he bats .420 in 1871 and no one can break it then thats fine. I may edit the database for the missing stats since even though all
players would be missing stats for those years, it would put some players at a disadvantage. If i can be sure that the computer is gonna look at the players whole career when it rates the player then that would be fine since i dont know how many sbs a player had when theres no stats. But what i dont want to see is a player imported with a low sb ability because he had no stats for sb in his first 5 years but yet he was in the top 5 for say the last 5 years of a ten year career.

03-31-2007, 02:49 PM	#10
BaseballMan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 6,646	I am wanting to start a league in 1871 but i dont care that some options dont work. It just would be nice to start a historical league in 1871 regardless of what options are available. If i can import a 19th century then obviously his ratings can be calculated. Maybe not as good as the modern era but workable. If i want it to be more accurate i can edit the database. But i think it would be a mistake to try to get accurate stats for a 19th century league or to make it like a modern league. Like its been said there was so many different changes and weird stats like Kilroy throwing 513 strikeouts in a season and a game having an attendence of 6. But just like the real leagues were learning as time went by i think of my league doing the same thing. So what i want to do is maybe have some fictional ballparks based loosley on the ballparks of that day and use real historical ballpark names. Maybe start with an 80 game schedule and expand it to 154 by 1903. Have injuries and fatigue low so i can use a small roster at first. Then when i arrive at 1901 i want to be able to use the recalc function and have more accurate stats. I do however wish to keep 19th century players from putting records too far out of reach. For example i dont want a player batting .492. If however he bats .420 in 1871 and no one can break it then thats fine. I may edit the database for the missing stats since even though all players would be missing stats for those years, it would put some players at a disadvantage. If i can be sure that the computer is gonna look at the players whole career when it rates the player then that would be fine since i dont know how many sbs a player had when theres no stats. But what i dont want to see is a player imported with a low sb ability because he had no stats for sb in his first 5 years but yet he was in the top 5 for say the last 5 years of a ten year career.