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Old 06-11-2009, 01:45 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by swampdragon View Post
The easiest thing to do (not that it's all that easy) would be a team defense concept that adjusted (or recalced) the individual defenders by whatever percentage was necessary to get a team's BABIP to what it should be. Obviously you'd have to adjust for park, and possibly some other things as well. But you wouldn't need a new database.
I guess my followup to this would be; Will this system only work on leagues that import players to their real-life teams? If the team is only half of who was really there in 1974, wouldn't the real-life team BABIP be essentially useless?
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