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Originally Posted by knockahoma
I'd love to see a "season disk". In fact, I re-edit 74 all the time for that. I'd suggest using the views of actual scouts and coaches as part of the equation, too.
STRAT-O-MATIC has had an excellent rep with professional baseball players over the decades. They dig into stats, but temper that with scouts, or tv commentators on their pay-roll.
I think that's important. Bill James writes about the shadow of the monster, how much is missing from the fielding math that we currently have. He says what's missing is important.
In other words, Math without Eyes may be as bad as Eyes without Math.  |
We don't have eyes for many of these seasons, and a season disk for 1974 would only be valuable beyond that season if it was based on math so that it could have a wider application. Markus is committed to DIPs, and it seems to have majority support in this community. If we're going to improve the OOTP experience for historical play, it's going to have to be within that framework. That's a high-level decision above our pay grade.
Individualized season quickstarts might be fun, and they'd probably be easier to do than what I have in mind, but you'd lose the career play. Still, I can see the advantages in the approach. Do you have a quickstart that works for 1974?