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This is a follow-up to my post of April 1. I posted at that time that I replayed the 1922 season and that (a) the hitting stats were way too high, and (b) some teams, such as the Chicago White Sox, appeared to have incorrect ratings. Well, I just applied the new patch and reran the 1922 season five times. I'm happy to report that the hitting stats are much better (Ken Williams drove in 182 runs once, which raised a red flag, but by and large things looked good --- guys were no longer hitting 75 points above their real-life batting average). But there are two AL teams that clearly have some rating problems. In real life, the Cleveland Indians won 78 games in 1922; I replayed the season five times and they averaged only 63 wins. The Chicago White Sox in real life won 77 games; in my five replays they averaged 87 wins. Other teams in the simulations had occasional oddities; for example, the St. Louis Cardinals, winners of 85 games in real life, had a replay season in which they won only 62. But in the other replays their win total was more in line with real life, so that 62-win season was probably just a fluke. For the Indians and White Sox, however, the results were consistent; not once did the Indians get very close to the 78 wins they had in real life, and not once did the White Sox fail to exceed (often by large amounts) their real-life win total of 77. Something is wrong here.
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