I probably spend too much time on the sets. It has become an obession trying to get a photo of every player. Can't tell you how excited I was last night when I found Greg Shanahan (22 career innings pitched) and Duke Simpson (45 innings all for the 1953 Cubs). I presently have 13,112 baseball player images on my cpu. Many are the same player in different shots but I bet I have close to 7000 different players photos.
I have also found some great photos from the first half century and the sets I release for those eras should be extremely detailed.
Anyway, to the task at hand.
Here are some decent settings to use for a league created in 1901. I could probably fine tune the strikeouts and doubles a little bit more but it is getting late.
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1901 League totals
AB 100000
Hits 24500
2B 3900
3B 1050
HR 905
BB 8300
HBP 830
K 6650
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Using the generic historical park (100 setting across the board) for all teams I got pretty accurate results. I made a 140 game schedule since teams played between 133-140 games that year.
I made one player rating adjustment. Nap Lajoie was imported hitting far too many homers so I changed his HR ratings to 3 overall,vs LHp and vs RHP.
In my league import I choose to base ratings on remaing career and did not use generic splits. To get similiar results you should do the same. I talk about the splits in my Historical Tutorial but my theory is not to do them because it unfairly favours lefthanded batters and artifically improves them in the game.
I set my era manager to Deadball and kept it at a 3 man rotation. Here are my AL and NL stats compared to real life:
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AMERICAN LEAGUE HR 3b 2B AVG BB K
1901 Sim Reuslts 229 738 1649 .286 2799 2559
REAL Life 1901 228 688 1534 .277 2780 2736
NATIONAL LEAGUE HR 3b 2B AVG BB K
1901 Sim Results 218 596 1448 .266 2589 3472
REAL Life 1901 NL 227 550 1397 .267 2685 4241
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Individual Leader stats will follow