OK, so the v23 sim has run (well, actually as I write this first bit it is in the early 1970s). Here are some observations. Not criticisms,
observations.
I reiterate my earlier thought that the improvements made to NeLers for v23 will satisfy most OOTP players.
BUT...
For this new setup to work properly, the NeL players need to be made fully-fledged major leaguers. Having to incorporate full historical minors just to get them in is highly problematic, both because the influx of ahistorical players - MiLB (
Emmitt Fulenwider hit 37 HR in one season... WTF??) and NeL - just nerfs the LTMs way out of whack, which will peeve the histo purists beyond words. Also, it makes the save incredibly unwieldy having all of those extras added on, not even taking FGs into consideration. Furthermore, as it stands the NeL players will not appear automatically in RD saves.
To show the stats generated in this sim, I'll use my original v22 sim as the reference point.
So here are all the stat results in the v23 test for the players who made the HoF in that original v22 sim. Sadly it seems for hitters there is a bug that makes the player's final season WAR total come up instead of his career, so I sorted them by HR instead.
Of these, in the v23 sim only 6 made it to Cooperstown: Cristobal Torriente, Turkey Stearnes, Josh Gibson, Willie Wells, Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby.
A couple other interesting (to me, anyway) points of note:
- Their versions of Newt Allen, Tetelo Vargas, Hilton Smith Vic Harris and Wilson Redus did better or close to by career WAR than mine.
- Lennie Pearson (8.2 lifetime WAR according to BBRef) won the 1940 Triple Crown and ended up with 157 career HR. He didn't make it into my test.
- Roosevelt Davis had the winningest season in history with 31 in 1927.
- Bonnie Serrell, another who didn't make it into mine, hit 393 to win the 1942 batting crown and followed it up with another win the next year after hitting 356. His 39 triples from that 1942 campaign remained the highest until the end of the sim.
I'll post the final leaderboards when the sim is finished.