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Originally Posted by Spritze
I'm also thinking Roster Sizes will be an issue as at the default 25 there won't be enough players. We will need Markus to use semi-real roster sizes for the 19th century. Currently 15 is the minimum. I'm thinking 15 for the 1870's, 18 for the 1880's, 21 for the 1890's, something along those lines?
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Originally Posted by David Ball
Before the mid 1880's or so, some teams went through an entire season without using fifteen players. Boston in 1877 comes to mind.
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Below is a table containing the minimum, maximum, and average number of players to appear on a ML club's roster during the season (that is, the player played in at least one game with the team) over the 1871-1900 time period.
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Year Min Max Avg
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1871 11 18 12.8
1872 10 26 14.2
1873 12 19 13.9
1874 11 23 15.4
1875 11 35 16.8
1876 10 24 15.5
1877 12 21 16.0
1878 10 16 13.3
1879 12 21 15.9
1880 11 23 16.9
1881 11 26 16.5
1882 12 24 17.9
1883 11 29 17.6
1884 15 35 21.4
1885 13 32 22.1
1886 15 37 21.9
1887 16 33 20.8
1888 17 26 21.9
1889 15 29 21.4
1890 17 46 25.1
1891 16 38 24.0
1892 17 37 25.8
1893 18 31 23.8
1894 17 30 24.5
1895 20 40 25.4
1896 20 35 24.6
1897 19 33 23.3
1898 20 37 26.8
1899 23 41 28.8
1900 21 30 24.4
So, for example, in 1888 the lowest number of players to be used by a team was 17; the highest number of players used was 26; the average number used was 21.9. If you were to strip out those players who only played in a small number of games, the maximum and average values would no doubt be lower than shown in the above table.