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Originally Posted by jaysdailydose
Or, since you went through the database, you COULD import a guy or so every few seasons from that list if you PERSONALLY wanted to see a career.
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In the previous league, Ted Williams gained for me a valuable insight to how this game works. In the OOTP 14 release statement, Markus mentions the 'new' scouting where all scouts hit or miss on the same players. When I read that, I said out loud, "That is in already in the OOTP 13 scouting!" Because I saw Ted Williams, uninjured, bounce to three teams, in his prime, and never get a starting job...EVERY scout in the league pulled a big whiff on Ted. Because I show no favoritism to any player (and, yes, I have been tempted....), I can learn how the game works by letting it simply do its thing.
Sorry for you that Ted was an initial draft casualty of sorts, but judging by your emblem, I would have thought you would have been more happy not to see the likes of Kaline, Cobb, Gehringer, or ANY other Tiger that is in the HOF, on the list.
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Am coming into the Class of 2011. That will parallel the inductions of 1939, a big class, so this one may take a bit of time.
As the modifiers for the newly termed Gorilla Composite now reflect the actual RL HOF scores, the composite scores will be lower. With lower scores, there will be fewer 10+ scores, previously termed "Once in a Decade" scores.
In the RL HOF, using the modifiers now in use here (the new new ones), there are 6 players with GCs over 10: Ruth, Cobb, Musial, Hornsby, Williams, and Wagner.
Because of that, any player that puts together a 10+ GC score here will be labeled a "Once in a Generation" player.
The 7th player on the RL list is Hank Aaron with a 9.83.
Here is an interesting thought...let's say that over the next 20 years the writers and VC decline to induct any unrepentant player with direct ties to PEDs. No Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Palmiero, Gonzalez, Clemens, etc....guys that would raise the bar of the RL HOF in terms of average Ink and HOFm/s averages. And let's say that over the next 20 years 20 players are inducted. I will say Maddux, Pedro, and Unit are gimmies....but let's say the others are the likes of my 9 true picks (Bagwell, Walker, Schilling, Franco, Piazza, Trammell, Murphy, Mattingly, Biggio) and guys like Whitaker, Hoffman, Rivera, Morris, Mark Grace (5 bucks says he is a VC induction), and others who lower the averages. What is really cool is that this arbitrary label of "Once in a Generation" player could, in a generation, apply to Hank Aaron if the hitting modifiers are brought down ever so slightly, as the result of the PED users being shunned from the Hall, by those who get inducted and thus elevate Aaron, numerically, to this standard.
This was long winded, I know, but now I think my favorite part of this whole exercise is the development of the Gorilla Composite, which is a completely unintended by-product of the HOF Induction algorithm (which I really like, too!).
ADD: I know McGwire is repentant, but I don't think he will get in. I am also aware that Piazza juice rumors led many writers to withhold votes from him as a 'wait and see' decision. These specifics I am not wanting to argue here, but just offering a plausible scenario where the next "Once in a Generation" HOF player, using GC, is Hank Aaron, even though he is from a past generation. I think that is cool.