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Originally Posted by Charlatan View Post
Here's a question for you baseball experts. Annandale is 1st in Batting AVG, 1st in On Base PCT, 1st in OPS, but 10th in Runs Scored. What does that indicate to you? Lack of power (we are 28th in HRs)? They're doing well so I'm not super worried about it, but it strikes me as odd. Think that's just a short-term oddity or is there really something going on here?
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So I don't think it has to do with power --- the Energizer Bunnies have exactly the same setup as you (except we are usually 30th in HR). Yet up until season before last, we were usually first in all the above, including runs.
It could be do to a combination of the following:
1. Bad luck
2. Maybe the top ten teams are really close in the above statistics, and you just happen to be tenth in runs.
3. Poor strategy settings for baserunning, base stealing. If you are trying a lot of stealing and failing, that could explain it (or getting thrown out on base paths a lot).
4. Having players that have much lower settings for stealing, base running, and speed than the other top teams. Or you could have players that are speedy but poor base stealers. There is an indication that players that are speedy will try to steal bases even when you don't want them to, and get caught more often. You can try to use individual strategy settings to have "some" control over this. Also low speed + groundball hitters will result in more double plays.
5. Maybe you have fewer innings than the other teams... all the stats you listed above except runs scored are independent of the number of innings played by your offense, but if you haven't played many extra-innings games, or ended a lot of games without batting in bottom of ninth, that will result in fewer runs scored, of course.