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Originally Posted by jksander
All hail the Nibbo! Seriously, this is cool ... though it looks like that last game they stopped playing Base Ball and started playing that new-fangled "foot ball" thing I keep hearing so much about around the east coast ... incidentally, lots of high scoring. I feel bad for the pitchers! What are the ERAs looking like?
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So, I did actual research before starting the first version of this game, and back in the 1850s to 1870s what passed for gloves really was stuff that amounted to leather work gloves - like you'd see at a Lowe's or Home Depot - or even just hand wraps. That meant error rates were astronomical.
In the first version of this game I started back in OOTP22, the highest-scoring team actually scored TEN runs per game. However, ERAs aren't that far off modern norms because the amount of fielding errors mean a lot of runs are considered "unearned".
If you've ever wanted to look up resources related to 19th Century Baseball,
https://protoball.org/ and
https://www.19cbaseball.com/ are great. Some of the venue names actually come from Protoball, and I'll detail that in a later post.