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Hoiles · 05-16-2018, 10:43 AM

This is a bit of a stat-heavy post. Im getting into historical random debut this version. As was widely noticed, dead ball era pitchers can have really high stuff ratings, as their modest real-life K totals normalize relative to very low league averages. As random debut appears to normalize them to very high K rates from 2017, you often see pitchers who strike out 350-400 for modern day leagues. For historical leagues, these pitchers keep their high K ratings, but arent as dominant as the modifiers adjust the K totals downwards. This leads to some of the high stuff pitchers being overrated. I think this is also the case for sluggers in deadball era random debut leagues; a player like a Thome or McGwire would have high power ratings but wouldnt be useful as they would hit few home runs anyways due to the era.

Would it be possible to adjust ratings for random debut to the year imported? It seems this is done for historical exhibitions. For example, 1901 Rube Waddell imports to 80 stuff (aka prime Nolan Ryan) with modern settings, to 70 stuff for 1977 settings, and 55 stuff for 1901 settings. However, in a historical random debut league, he always has the same ratings regardless of year, even if he is more dominant in a 2017 league than in a 1901 league.

Even if its not possible for OOTP 19, I might put this into suggestions for future versions later.

05-16-2018, 10:43 AM	#1
Hoiles All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 574	Random debut procedure This is a bit of a stat-heavy post. Im getting into historical random debut this version. As was widely noticed, dead ball era pitchers can have really high stuff ratings, as their modest real-life K totals normalize relative to very low league averages. As random debut appears to normalize them to very high K rates from 2017, you often see pitchers who strike out 350-400 for modern day leagues. For historical leagues, these pitchers keep their high K ratings, but arent as dominant as the modifiers adjust the K totals downwards. This leads to some of the high stuff pitchers being overrated. I think this is also the case for sluggers in deadball era random debut leagues; a player like a Thome or McGwire would have high power ratings but wouldnt be useful as they would hit few home runs anyways due to the era. Would it be possible to adjust ratings for random debut to the year imported? It seems this is done for historical exhibitions. For example, 1901 Rube Waddell imports to 80 stuff (aka prime Nolan Ryan) with modern settings, to 70 stuff for 1977 settings, and 55 stuff for 1901 settings. However, in a historical random debut league, he always has the same ratings regardless of year, even if he is more dominant in a 2017 league than in a 1901 league. Even if its not possible for OOTP 19, I might put this into suggestions for future versions later.