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Vholes · 12-20-2010, 01:05 PM

I'm playing with a 1871 historical league using the latest version of the Gambo-Spritze database. I'm playing with the default options for historical leagues, with the following exceptions: neutralized stats, scouting and coaching off, prevent recalc on.

While the batting results seem fairly realistic, I'm seeing some very strange results with pitchers. Specifically, the game appears to assign unrealistically high ratings to cup-of-coffee pitchers with minimal real life stats. Two examples, after running a test league out to 1900: Bob Black is a 349 game winner and the leader in career pitching VORP by a wide margin; in real life, he played just a single season in the Union Association (with an ERA+ of just 87). Charles Witherow, who pitched just an inning of baseball in real life, has the best pitching ratings in the league in 1871, and became a 16-time all star in the sim. In fact, virtually the entire pitching leaderboard as of 1900 is filled with players with very short careers in real life.

I'm not sure if this is a problem with the database, or my settings. If it's my settings, what do I need to change? And for that matter, is there a definitive list somewhere of the settings that need to be entered in order to make the Gambo-Spritze database function properly?

12-20-2010, 01:05 PM	#1
Vholes Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 28	Weird results with Gambo/Spritze I'm playing with a 1871 historical league using the latest version of the Gambo-Spritze database. I'm playing with the default options for historical leagues, with the following exceptions: neutralized stats, scouting and coaching off, prevent recalc on. While the batting results seem fairly realistic, I'm seeing some very strange results with pitchers. Specifically, the game appears to assign unrealistically high ratings to cup-of-coffee pitchers with minimal real life stats. Two examples, after running a test league out to 1900: Bob Black is a 349 game winner and the leader in career pitching VORP by a wide margin; in real life, he played just a single season in the Union Association (with an ERA+ of just 87). Charles Witherow, who pitched just an inning of baseball in real life, has the best pitching ratings in the league in 1871, and became a 16-time all star in the sim. In fact, virtually the entire pitching leaderboard as of 1900 is filled with players with very short careers in real life. I'm not sure if this is a problem with the database, or my settings. If it's my settings, what do I need to change? And for that matter, is there a definitive list somewhere of the settings that need to be entered in order to make the Gambo-Spritze database function properly?