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Originally Posted by Brad K
The game prides itself on it's statistical accuracy on a yearly basis for the entire league. For individual players it prides itself on it's "realism" which it equates with rampant randomness (except for limiting peak HR performances and cutting down performance of PED suspects)
In consecutive years I had Tony Armas hit .335 with 44 HRs and .179 with 12 HRs. I would have been in deep trouble except the game gave some of his production to Richie Hebner who hit .280 with 31 HRs at age 34!. Three cheers for the "realism" of rampant randomness. (The guys wear the Randomness Purity Ring.)
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I've thought on this some more, come back to Earth a bit in my dudgeon, but maintain the premise nonetheless.
There is no doubt I have brought some of this on myself by introducing NeL players without adapting the LTMs for the league, intensifying the statistical compression that is part of how the game has to work, one I fully recognise. Making things even more challenging in this regard is a strange phenomenon in this save with these NeL players whereby their contact ratings almost uniformly gravitate (lower) while their power ratings increase.
So from 1924 onward I will be making some changes.
I have deemed 1940 as a good middle ground for LTMs whereby HR numbers are up without an unacceptable blowout in ERA (roughly 0.5). I will be using this year in 1924 and, if all goes well, continuing to do so until 1940, by which point things will hopefully have found the middle ground I seek.
Secondly, at the end of each season I will be retweaking the ratings for those NeL players whose profiles have become unrealistic, ticking contact up and power down. Not much, just in line with their historical equivalent.
From the off, this has been one of those odd seasons you occasionally get with OOTP. The game tried to give Eppa Rixey a career-ending injury (which I reversed), and various other anomalous things have happened. Plus the stat output, while collectively in line with the IRL, has been incredibly flat across the board with few outliers.
As I said, I am looking forward to putting 1923 in the past and incredibly hopeful that it was just a one-off concatenation of circumstances. Fingers crossed these other changes help get things back on track.