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David Watts · 02-19-2024, 10:57 AM

Over the weekend I decided to create a random debut league. Small 12 team league starting in 1960. For fun, I just set the game to fast sim. Ended up doing this all the way through the 1992 season.

Jim St. Vrain entered the league in either the inaugural draft or one shortly after that. Now in real life ole Jim pitched one season, 1902. Jim pitched in 12 games, starting 11 of them, tossing 95 innings. He finished his career 4-6 with a 2.08 ERA. Jim whiffed an impressive 51 batters back in 1902 and walked 25.

What has me baffled is, Jim St. Vrain would go on to make the Hall of Fame in my league. Doing so mostly as a relief pitcher. This is the second time I've seen St. Vrain make the Hall in a random debut and I just don't understand how it can happen.

This random is using 5 year recalc. I actually increased the adjust/weaken settings (did this after seeing Reed's post a ways back), I can't remember the exact settings, but what I used are higher than the default settings the wizard shows. I'm not using double weight.

So how is that the adjust/weaken settings don't crush a guy like St. Vrain? I just don't understand this, especially when the game will hammer guys like Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg during the war years. In another random this year I had some nobody cat from the early 1900's save like 700 games. He pitched in less games that St.Vrain in real life. This is way the adjust/weaken settings drive me nuts. I'm glad they exist, but wish I could make better sense of them.

In another project this weekend, I used the default adjust/weaken settings but used 1 year recalc. This was random debut as well. The game produced some nice numbers, but right away I was able to see that these settings would not work. Ronald Acuna Jr. came out on fire in the game. Ended up hittig 54 home runs a few years into his career. Problem is when he reached the end of his real life stats, he instantly became a bench player and quickly retired. Saw the same thing with several other modern day guys.

02-19-2024, 10:57 AM	#1
David Watts Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Looking for a place called Leehofooks Posts: 9,681 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Something that will never make sense to me Over the weekend I decided to create a random debut league. Small 12 team league starting in 1960. For fun, I just set the game to fast sim. Ended up doing this all the way through the 1992 season. Jim St. Vrain entered the league in either the inaugural draft or one shortly after that. Now in real life ole Jim pitched one season, 1902. Jim pitched in 12 games, starting 11 of them, tossing 95 innings. He finished his career 4-6 with a 2.08 ERA. Jim whiffed an impressive 51 batters back in 1902 and walked 25. What has me baffled is, Jim St. Vrain would go on to make the Hall of Fame in my league. Doing so mostly as a relief pitcher. This is the second time I've seen St. Vrain make the Hall in a random debut and I just don't understand how it can happen. This random is using 5 year recalc. I actually increased the adjust/weaken settings (did this after seeing Reed's post a ways back), I can't remember the exact settings, but what I used are higher than the default settings the wizard shows. I'm not using double weight. So how is that the adjust/weaken settings don't crush a guy like St. Vrain? I just don't understand this, especially when the game will hammer guys like Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg during the war years. In another random this year I had some nobody cat from the early 1900's save like 700 games. He pitched in less games that St.Vrain in real life. This is way the adjust/weaken settings drive me nuts. I'm glad they exist, but wish I could make better sense of them. In another project this weekend, I used the default adjust/weaken settings but used 1 year recalc. This was random debut as well. The game produced some nice numbers, but right away I was able to see that these settings would not work. Ronald Acuna Jr. came out on fire in the game. Ended up hittig 54 home runs a few years into his career. Problem is when he reached the end of his real life stats, he instantly became a bench player and quickly retired. Saw the same thing with several other modern day guys. Last edited by David Watts; 02-19-2024 at 11:00 AM.