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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
For the most part I let the AI create the player ratings... I did create some players taken from movies and books... Jack Elliott, Roy Hobbs, Crash Davis... they all did well in the IPA... Elliott was too good... I overdid it there... but Hobbs and Davis were realistic... I also took fictional players from Duane Decker's Blue Sox anthology book series...about 15 of them and put them in the league... their stats were based on how they performed in the books... they came out realistically, too.
I messed up when I put myself in the IPA... I played too long and did much too well offensively... I put realistic ratings in at the beginning, but the AI developed me too much.
I also put myself in the North Island League as an average player at the plate... .275 BA with no power... good baserunner... good eye... and pretty good on defense at shortstop... pitching-wise, I was just fair-to-middling... good control, but no fastball... good curve ball... yep, I got hit regularly... my ERA was about 4.00... I thought my stats were fairly reasonable and realistic.
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That's really cool. I put in players from the Major League movies - Willie Mayes Hayes, Ricky Vaughn, Jake Taylor, Roger Dorn, Pedro Cerrano. But they were all super players. In another league in the past I put my brothers and some friends in the game too, that was fun.
I'll do it starting in my 1961 season but will make their projected stats more realistic.