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I also don't post much, but seeing this, I figured I'd add something that made me happy.
Started in 1871, and worked through 1800s manually, sometimes moving players to the team they actually played for, sometimes not...as long as I had the right teams.
Anyway, I recently finished the 1911 season, which meant the retirement of Cy Young:
W/L record: 512-332 (real-life record: 511-316)
ERA: 2.61 (real: 2.63)
WHIP: 1.11 (real: 1.13)
K/9: 3.7 (real: 3.4)
Shutouts: 77 (real: 76)
And I think this is my favorite part...the real Cy Young threw three no-hitters. He threw one for the Cleveland Spiders, against Cincinnati in 1897. Then he threw two for the Red Sox - against the A's in 1904 and the Yankees in 1908. My Cy Young threw a no-hitter for Cleveland against Washington in 1893, and then two more for the Red Sox - against the A's in 1903 and the Yankees in 1905.
Sure, there were some stats that were off by a more significant margin, but still good.
My Cy Young actually pitched more games and made more starts (966 games and 891 starts, compared to 906 games and 815 starts in real life), and so pitched about 450 more innings (7802.1 vs. 7356). So my Cy Young had 3169 strikeouts compared to the real-life number of 2803. But even with this, my Cy Young threw 688 complete games while the real guy went the distance 749 times.
The real Cy Young also had 17 saves, while my version had 6.
But overall, I really enjoyed seeing how close my Cy Young came to the real thing. Maybe the biggest change is that, since I don't have real transactions going, he stayed with the Red Sox from 1901 to the end of his career.
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