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Old 05-12-2022, 12:30 PM   #10
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This new random I'm doing will take place using 1979(unless I decide to use 1979-1986, which might happen as well) I often get bored using only one year. This should give me a better idea. I was just shocked when I saw that Henderson had been caught so many times. Didn't think about it being a period when no one was really stealing all that much.
An idea but not really conclusive. Put him in the correct era and you still have players from other eras who will have different SB ratings from the historical players. You need correct era with all historical players.

Let's say you have a group of random players where the aggregate of their stolen base attempt rate is much less than in Henderson's era. The LTM file will bump up the attempts of all players to bring the attempt rate league wide up to what it is in the LTM file. Who knows exactly what it does but since it does something the output is suspect and not useful for analysis against historical.
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