League totals / autocalc question

[mookie1]

Hi all,

I am starting a historical league in the 1980 season, and I would like the league to maintain roughly the same statistical levels (80s style baseball) throughout its history. So, for instance, when I hit the steroid era, I want someone like Bonds to hit in the neighborhood of upper 50 HRs rather than 73. When I hit 2017, I don't want every player to more or less have a floor of 15 HRs, and I want Billy Hamilton or Dee Gordon to be real threats for 90+ steals.

Any recommendations for how best to accomplish that? I assume auto-calc is off, but not sure the rest. Thanks in advance.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by mookie1

Hi all,

I am starting a historical league in the 1980 season, and I would like the league to maintain roughly the same statistical levels (80s style baseball) throughout its history. So, for instance, when I hit the steroid era, I want someone like Bonds to hit in the neighborhood of upper 50 HRs rather than 73. When I hit 2017, I don't want every player to more or less have a floor of 15 HRs, and I want Billy Hamilton or Dee Gordon to be real threats for 90+ steals.

Any recommendations for how best to accomplish that? I assume auto-calc is off, but not sure the rest. Thanks in advance.

The best way to do it is to select the particular season you want the stats to model. Uncheck the auto-adjust LTMs for accuracy box. Do not check the lock league totals box: it's not working as designed yet. It handles stats like H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, HBP, K just fine, but the rest of the stats like fielding, wild pitches, passed balls, balks etc will set to the season you're playing. That may not be too bad from the 1980s forward, but try playing in 1901. Hah! Also do not use auto-calc. Instead, the day before Opening Day, enter the year you want your stats to emulate in the Totals from Year/Select Year box. The LTMs will adjust themselves after you do this, and you're ready to go. The stats will line up with the year you've selected. Some years you'll get a year that's hotter than the year you selected, while some years it'll be cooler, and some years it'll be bang on. That's normal. The average over time will be so close it'll blow your mind.

Please see here for my results using this method in a forty year sim that I ran from 1901 through 1940. I think you'll like what you see, especially when you consider that the game went right through the heart of the deadball era of 1908ish to 1919ish, and through the first live-ball era of the twenties and especially the thirties.

[mookie1]

That's fantastic! Thank you very much.