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Originally Posted by kq76

I don't play historical so I'm only hazarding a guess here, but I don't think the game is really meant to import the actual numbers from the file. Obviously there must be a purpose to them, otherwise why have them, but seeing as how running auto-calc multiple times will give you different numbers, I think it's only meant to give you numbers close to, or maybe only modified by, that set of numbers while comparing your league's ratings to its totals.

Your other thread mentioned a modifier of 5 something for sac bunts. I see above you have the 1979 totals, haven't pressed auto-calc, and have a 1 for sac bunts. I tested a 1979 file (I don't know your exact settings, but...), pressed auto-calc three times and got 2.019, 2.163, 2.323, and I'm sure more presses would just result in more 2s. And while 2s, it would seem, are still a bit on the high side, they're nowhere near the 5 you got. I wouldn't be shocked by 2s, but I would be by a 5, so I don't know what was with that lg of yours. If it was a league you had run for multiple years and let the development engine do whatever it wanted, maybe sac bunt ratings got out whack with you'd see from a freshly created 1979 league, and then the 5 was generated only to try to get it back in line?

Did you also tweak the left side of the screen's General Strategic Tendencies in that league? That could throw off your modifiers too. For instance, as a test I set bunting to Very Rarely (from Often) then pressed auto-calc again and the modifier changed to 7.621! In the past I've sometimes found GST settings completely contrary to what I'd expect for the year and so I changed them, but I'm not sure why they're there as modifiers and them seem to control the same thing. Only modifiers seem to allow you to get closer to what you want so maybe don't change the GSTs.

Well lookey, lookey. A Canadian talkin' about the GST. Hope you didn't get dumped on by the snow today. Not sure it hit Vancouver, but it looked nasty.