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In playing with this concept more, I did find a sort of workaround for the deadest part of the dead ball era. The key isn't fiddling with the stat modifiers, but the ballpark modifiers. I bumped each park's home run factors up by one (1.034 became 2.034, for example) and with the 1987 stat base, was able to get nearly perfect stats for much of the 1900s. You'd have the league leader in the 40s and a few behind him in the 30s with team home run totals and other stats looking like how I wanted them. Before that, the 1987 stat base with normal ballpark modifiers meant you could never get guys with more than maybe 20-25 home runs in a season.
The big thing though is you have to change it back to more normal numbers in the 1910s once actual sluggers come in. Otherwise, Babe Ruth hits triple digit dingers and other top contemporaries are regularly in the 60-70 HR range.
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