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Old 07-21-2008, 02:59 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by RoyalsBlue View Post
If you take into account that the players aren't distributed as IRL (which I didn't in my first post on this subject), the overall steals aren't bad and certainly don't look as bad as the individual leagues can make them look (+766/-505 for example). Are they perfect historically? Probably not, but I didn't want an exact replication of history anyway.
Overall, that variance seems okay. I wonder, though, if a league-wide setting will result in the SB real-life outliers to not be such outliers in the sim.

My other thought is that perhaps those leaders were caught a lot more often in the sim. Cobb wasn't all that successful a base stealer in real life, percentage-wise, at least during the years that they tracked the statistic, but he really shouldn't have run in your replay.
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