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Originally Posted by mitchkenn
i'd like the Negro Leaguers to be imported with the stats they had against Major Leagues. Seamheads has that data. At least then i would feel the stats reflect how they compared to MLB levels. and maybe then i'd be less inclined to feel the necessity of editing every NL player i have in the game.
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That would yield very little usable information. If Negro Leaguers were playing major leaguers, it would have been in exhibition games against barnstorming teams. How seriously the players took those games is anybody's guess, but even if they were all deadly serious there still weren't enough of those games to make for a viable sample size. Landis cracked down on barnstorming in general and didn't want white players playing against black players in particular, so there's just not very much information out there regarding how black players performed against white major leaguers.
In any event, Negro League stats are, at best, guesstimates. The developers could have downgraded or upgraded NeL players and would have been justified in either case. I think the decision to treat the NeL as a minor league is historically accurate - the fact that, after the color barrier was broken, only a relative handful of black players made it into the majors was, in part, due to the fact that only a relative handful had the talent to make it to the majors.