[David Watts]

Originally Posted by thehef

I think the 5-year recalc explains things (about the War era guys performing well in 1942 and 1943) more than the weaken settings, because with 5-year recalc, none of these guys would have a total AB or IP number that is below what normal weaken numbers used for 5-year recacl would be.

1942
Williams, DiMaggio and Feller all played in '42, so that would explain them... For Greenberg I think he would be rated based upon the adjust number. Do you remember what yours was?

1943
I don't know what your adjust settings were, but let's say for batting it was 200. That means your factoring in 1941 thru 1945. In that span, Teddy and Joe both played only in 1941 & 1942. However, they each had enough AB's in those two season to exceed the 1,000 total required to avoid any adjusted AB's being applied to their totals. Therefore, their 1943 ratings would be based on their outstanding '41 and '42 stats... Greenberg, however, only had 337 AB's over that span (67 in '41, 270 in '45), so he would have 663 adjusted AB's applied to his stats, upon which his ratings would then be based. And also given that his '41 and '45 partial-year stats were not the beastly numbers that he had put up in other seasons, his '43 ratings might show him as an average player but with some power...

I'm thinking that having the weaken setting at zero, it's going to affect those guys who you want to be rated based upon the adjust number, but who had low #'s of AB's. So maybe a guy with 30 or 40 AB's that you want to be adjusted, but not weakened...

I used a low adjust number for hitters of 110. Pitchers I used 17.